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Allan Kaprow 1927-2006/Modern Art: A Very Short Introduction by David Cottington



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Allan Kaprow (August 23, 1927 – April 5, 2006) was an American painter, assemblagist and a pioneer in establishing the concepts of performance art. He helped to develop the "Environment" and "Happening" in the late 1950s and 1960s, as well as their theory. His Happenings - some 200 of them - evolved over the years. Eventually Kaprow shifted his practice into what he called "Activities", intimately scaled pieces for one or several players, devoted to the study of normal human activity in a way congruent to ordinary life. Fluxus, Performance art, and Installation art was, in turn, influenced by his work.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Kaprow




Published works

Assemblage,Environments, and Happenings (1966) presented the work of like-minded artists through both photographs and critical essays, and is a standard text in the field of performance art. Kaprow's Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life (1993), a collection of pieces written over four decades, has made his theories about the practice of art in the present day available to a new generation of artists and critics. [9]

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  關於觀念藝術如何排斥傳統的藝術標準,已經談得很多。其實,

這種對傳統的排斥,早在觀念藝術積極登場之前就已開始。新標準的時勢肇端於這樣的認知:如果藝術要維持其活力,它必須再一次地投入文化價值的舞台。而文化價值的改變——在過去乃藝術的主題之一——今天,按照艾倫‧卡布羅(Allan Kaprow)的說法,主要「透過政治的、軍事的、經濟的、技術的、教育的及廣告的壓力而達成的。

  無疑的,某些美學家會說價值的改變對藝術而言,並不是一種適切的,或甚至於歷史性的課題。但是我持不同的看法,它未必是最重要、或唯一的課題;無論如何,事實是很清楚的:所有好的及「持久的藝術與更廣泛的文化發展有密切的關連。通常,文化價值決定這種藝術的真正形式,其實,這兩者是不可分的。某些藝術的真正品質,特別就觀念藝術的架構而言,取決於它如何有效地改變我們的文化價值。具體地說,一件「好的觀念藝術作品成功地突破了既定的美學或文化規則。


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 pp.64-65 一小段談 Allan Kaprow
 

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Modern Art: A Very Short Introduction

ISBN13: 9780192803641ISBN10: 0192803646 Paperback, 152 pages
Apr 2005,  In Stock

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This Very Short Introduction focuses on interrogating the idea of "modern" art by asking such questions as: What makes a work of art qualify as modern, or fail to? How has this selection been made? What is the relationship between modern and contemporary art? Is "postmodernist" art no longer modern, or just no longer modernist? In either case, why--and what does this claim mean, both for art and the idea of "the modern?"

Description

Public interest in modern art continues to grow, as witnessed by the spectacular success of the Tate Modern in London and the Bilbao Guggenheim. Modern Art: A Very Short Introduction engages general readers, offering them not only information and ideas about modern art, but also explaining its contemporary relevance and history. The book focuses on interrogating the idea of "modern" art by asking such questions as: What makes a work of art qualify as modern, or fail to? How has this selection been made? What is the relationship between modern and contemporary art? Is "postmodernist" art no longer modern, or just no longer modernist? In either case, why--and what does this claim mean, both for art and the idea of "the modern?"

Cottingham examines many key aspects of this subject, including the issue of controversy in modern art, from Manet's Dejeuner sur L'Herbe (1863) to Picasso's Les Demoiselles, and Tracey Emin's Bed (1999). He also looks at the role of the dealer from the main Cubist art dealer Kahnweiler, to Charles Saatchi.

About the Series: Combining authority with wit, accessibility, and style, Very Short Introductions offer an introduction to some of life's most interesting topics. Written by experts for the newcomer, they demonstrate the finest contemporary thinking about the central problems and issues in hundreds of key topics, from philosophy to Freud, quantum theory to Islam

Features

  • This book grapples clearly and provocatively with the complex idea of modern art
  • The author, David Cottington, writes clear and accessible, free of jargon but not of challenging ideas and arguments
  • The book covers all main artists and movements, as well as the new developments in modern art
  • Examines key aspects of modern art using examples such as Manet's Dejeuner sur L'Herbe (1863) to Picasso's Les Demoiselles, and Tracey Emin's Bed (1999)
  • Looks at the role of the art dealer, from the main Cubist dealer, Kahnweiler to Charles Saatchi

About the Author(s)

David Cottington is Professor of History of Art at Falmouth College of Art and the author of Cubism.





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