Childsplay: The Art of Allan Kaprow by Jeff Kelley; Foreword-David Antin - 2004-12-07

University of California Press, Berkeley CA, 2004. Book. Fine Condition. Cloth. 249 pages 176 illustrations 20 in color. First edition. Foreword by David Antin. Notes. List of Illustrations. Index..

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

University of California Press. hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

University of California Press, Los Angeles, 2004. hardcover with dust jacket. fine. Described variously as "an avant-garde revolutionary, a radical sociologist, a Zen(ish) monk, a progressive educator and an anti-art theorist," Kaprow is almost as difficult to define as his art, which he considered "un-art." Kaprow created "happenings," which incorporated materials usually dispersed at the end of a performance, as well as the actions of the participants themselves. They ranged from chaotic installation "environments" (Beauty Parlor, The Apple Shrine) and carnivalesque, sometimes menacing, spectacles (Tree, Chicken, Courtyard) to intensely private interactions experienced directly only by those taking part in them (Rates of Exchange, Useful Fictions). None of these, however, can be adequately presented in anything resembling a standard coffee table book, so Kelley instead offers something that is part intellectual biography, part academic criticism. By showing the context within which Kaprow made… Read More