ALLAN KAPROW LP FLUXUS-YVES KLEIN-YOKO ONO-JOHN CAGE

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ALLAN KAPROW

 COURTESY LP

Slowscan

Orange Vinyl

Limited Edition: 150 copies 

Rare sound document from fluxus artist Allan Kaprow, gallery edition limited to a mere 150 copies. Several sound "happenings", a really unique recording. 

Some info on the release:  Extremely rare artist recording on the Slowscan label (that released also recordings from Yasunao Tone, Charlemagne Palestine, Emmett Williams, Robert Filliou, Le Forte Four, John Duncan, Henning Christiansen and others), a small pressing of 150 copies. Beautiful 1-sided orange vinyl, unique sound document of Kaprow's famous "happenings".

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.

Kaprow began his early education in Tucson, Arizona where he attended boarding school. Later he would attend the High School of Music and Art in New York where his fellow students were the artists Wolf Kahn, Rachel Rosenthal and the future New York gallerist Virginia Zabriskie. As an undergraduate at New York University, Kaprow was influenced by John Dewey's book "Art as Experience". He studied in the Arts and philosophy as a graduate student. He received his MA degree from Columbia University in art history. He started in the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts in 1947. It was here that he started with a style of action painting, which greatly influenced his Happenings pieces in years to come.

Through a long teaching career, he has held teaching positions at Rutgers, Pratt Institute, the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and the California Institute of the Arts. He went on to study (time-based) composition with John Cage in his class at the New School for Social Research, painting with Hans Hofmann, and art history with Meyer Schapiro. Kaprow started his studio career as a painter, and later co-founded the Hansa and Reuben Galleries in New York and became the director of the Judson Gallery. With John Cage's influence, he became less and less focused on the product of painting, and instead on the action. In the late 50s and early 60s while working as a Professor at Rutgers University, he helped to create the group Fluxus, along with Professors Robert Watts, Geoffrey Hendricks, and Roy Lichtenstein, artists George Brecht, and George Segal, and undergraduates Lucas Samaras and Robert Whitman, . This is when he started his "Happenings".

Kaprow’s piece 18 Happenings in 6 Parts (1959) is commonly cited as the first happening, although that distinction is sometimes given to a 1952 performance of Theater Piece No. 1 at Black Mountain College by John Cage, one of Kaprow's teachers in the mid-1950s. Cage stood reading from a ladder, Charles Olson read from another ladder, Robert Rauschenberg showed some of his paintings and played scratched phonograph records, David Tudor performed on a prepared piano and Merce Cunningham danced. All these things took place at the same time, among the audience rather than on a stage. Happenings flourished in New York City in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Key contributors to the form included Carolee Schneemann, Red Grooms, Robert Whitman, Jim Dine Car Crash, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Delford Brown, Lucas Samaras, and Robert Rauschenberg, Yves Klein, Yoko Ono, Jean Tinguely, Bob Cobbing and others. Some of their work is documented in Michael Kirby's book Happenings (1966). Interestingly, Kaprow claimed that "some of us will become famous, and we will have proven once again that the only success occurred when there was a lack of it."

Condition: Vinyl and cover lie in mint condition, this is an unplayed stock copy.

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