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Please join us for the opening reception of an exhibition featuring video documentation and accounts of Allan Kaprow\'s Happenings. As the inventor of Happenings in the late 1950s, Allan Kaprow has been variously described as an avant-garde revolutionary, a radical sociologist, a Zen(ish) monk, a progressive educator, and an anti-art theorist. But he must also be understood as an artist. While he will forever be associated with the improvisations of the early 1960s, Kaprows works have gradually moved from the public, spectacular features of the early Happenings toward a more genuinely participatory art in which the once privileged content of the artist gives way to the personal experience of the participant.
Visual Arts Gallery @ Structural & Materials Engineering Building (SME) |
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