Allan Kaprow, artist and art
Born April 23 1927, Birth Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA.
Died Apr 5 2006 deathSan Diego, USA.
Action and Happening Art.
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Happenings’. I’d already repudiated the word, because many other people before that were using it. It was a catch word. You remember everybody went around going, "What’s happening, baby?" Political uprisings on campuses and advertisements for butter and brassieres were all using the word "happening."…
Within a brief and intense early career, Kaprow progressed from an interest in Abstract Expressionism (Jackson Pollock) and many-levelled paintings incorporating collage to assemblage…
Art As Life
Allan Kaprow coined the term Happening in the late 1950s, and led the movement into the bright lights of popular culture that characterized the 1960s…
