[silence] Allan Kaprow (1927–2006)

[Ralph Lichtensteiger]

dear all,
Avant-garde pioneer Allan Kaprow, inventor of the "happening," has  
died (at the age of 78).
Allan Kaprow (1927–2006)
by Robert C. Morgan, Wolf Kahn and Irving Sandler

" (...) Initially influenced by the philosophy of John Dewey and  
later by the teachings of Meyer Shapiro, John Cage, and Hans Hofmann,  
Kaprow believed in an expanded idea of art—prior to the  
conceptualists and long before the advent of postmodernism—that was  
inextricably bound to aesthetics and could encompass actions and  
ideas as much as objects. Allan Kaprow was always in advance of his  
time and, in many ways, he still is. (...)" —Robert C. Morgan

http://brooklynrail.org/2006-05/art/allan-kaprow-19272006

&

http://www.ubu.com/historical/kaprow/kaprow.html

kind regards,
ralph li
http://www.lichtensteiger.de/diary.html
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