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Book SynopsisFocuses on the author's sustained inquiry into the paradoxical relationship of art to life and into the nature of meaning itself.
Trade Review"Throughout these essays there is a lyric impulse, a rising of the heart, a moral passion that represents the spirit of the 60s at its best. At the same time Kaprow's thinking is exceedingly rigorous. . . . He has the optimism of the period without its willed naïveté." * Art in America *
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Preface to the Expanded Edition: On the Way to Un-Art
THE FIFTIES
The Legacy of Jackson Pollock (1958)
Notes on the Creation of a Total Art (1958)
THE SIXTIES
Happenings in the New York Scene (1961)
Impurity (1963)
The Artist as a Man of the World (1964)
The Happenings Are Dead:
Long Live the Happenings! (1966)
Experimental Art (1966)
Manifesto (1966)
Pinpointing Happenings (1967)
The Shape of the Art Environment (1968)
THE SEVENTIES
The Education of the Un-Artist, Part I (1971)
The Education of the Un-Artist, Part II (1972)
Doctor MD (1973)
The Education of the Un-Artist, Part III (1974)
Video Art: Old Wine, New Bottle (1974)
Formalism: Flogging a Dead Horse (1974)
Nontheatrical Performance (1976)
Participation Performance (1977)
Performing Life (1979)
THE EIGHTIES
The Real Experiment (1983)
Art Which Can't Be Art (1986)
Right Living (1987)
THE NINETIES
The Meaning of Life (1990)
Maestro Maciunas (1996)
Just Doing (1997)
Selected Bibliography of Allan Kaprow's Writings on Art
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