Allan Kaprow

Allan Kaprow (23 August 1927 – 5 April 2006) was an American Fluxus artist, assemblagist a pioneer in establishing the concepts of performance art, and the originator of Happenings.

Sourced

• You can't teach colour from Cézanne, you can only teach it from something like this bubble-gum wrapper.
  • PORTRAITS, Talking with Artists at the Met, The Modern, The Louvre and Elsewhere (1998) by Michael Kimmelman

• The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.
  • "Transfiguration of the Commonplace" by Anna Dezeuze in Variant 22 (Spring 2005)

• A walk down 14th street is more amazing than any masterpiece of art.
  • Streets 2K5 international festival Of Street Art (May 2005) pg 19 (PDF)

• ...the problem with artlike art, or even doses of artlike art that still linger in lifelike art, is that it overemphasizes the discourse within art...

• • Journal of Contemporary Art, Inc. accessed 2008-04-28

External links

• "Allan Kaprow, the Happener"
• Allan Kaprow Happenings
• Allan Kaprow at Hauser & Wirth Zürich London
• Kaprow at UBU archives
• Allan Kaprow's "Tail Wagging Dog" and other writings first published in The ACT
• Interview with Allan Kaprow
• The Jewish Museum