Talk:Allan Kaprow

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Info that was added by Sof chiang appears to be a copyright infringement from ubuweb and was reverted. Rewster 07:32, 17 October 2005 (UTC)


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Performance artist?
Should the category "Performance artist" be added? It's not clear if he performed in his own "happenings" or assigned others to do so. Badagnani 20:15, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Kaprow both performed his own scores and gave them to others to perform. I think giving him a performance artist category makes sense. Bipandboppop (talk) 12:02, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

Major figure, must be enlarged
There's an enormous written literature on this major figure but his generation wasn't aware that the internet is going to be the fountain of research for future generations. It will skew ideas of importance. You can find gigantic essays here on every American Idol contestant but John Cage and Allan Kaprow have these stubby little entries. When Cage died it was on the front page of the New York Times. Kaprow has volumes written about him, but they're not online. Not only Kaprow scholars but all art historians should take note. Profhum (talk) 04:21, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

photo
If you can help edit the photo, that would be great. It's got this annoying text before and after it. I could not get the code just right. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Accosta2 (talk • contribs) 01:29, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

quotes?
I am pretty sure I have seen it noted before that wikipedia is not to be a quote farm, so why are there so many quotes? Perhaps consider deletion of some of these. Also, many of said quotes are uncited; another no-no. Though I agree that the quotes are insightful, we simply can't prove they are his quotes without sources. Assuming all quotes are from one source, this needs to be made more clear. I lack the time at the moment to do so, my apologies to whom it may concern. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Xmarkmanx (talk • contribs) 09:46, 19 November 2009 (UTC)


 * I agreeBipandboppop (talk) 12:02, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

Error re: Brecht and Lichtenstein
George Brecht was never a student or even directly affiliated with Rutgers. He was a chemist at the nearby Johnson and Johnson laboratory, and became friends with Robert Watts initially, and later Kaprow and the rest of the Rutgers Group.

Roy Lichtenstein came from Suny Oswego in 1960 as a professor. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Spoonbag liliputz (talk • contribs) 17:38, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

UCSD
Dates should be listed - 1974-1993

Copyright problem removed
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Postmortem Performances
Since Kaprow died his scores have been performed many times. This often happens when the artist's has a retrospective, or is included in an exhibition. Should we keep added notable examples of these? It doesnt seem necessary to me. Bipandboppop (talk) 12:02, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

Major changes to "Academic Career"
I've removed the "Chronology of Teaching Institutions" section, which was completely superfluous and could be easily merged with "Teaching." The "studies" and "teaching" sections are both in dire need of revision and referencing. I may get to it at some point, but it would be nice to have someone else interested in Kaprow look over that section. Brian heim composer (talk) 18:23, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

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Under Teaching it says, "Kaprow began teaching at Rutgers University in 1953. While there, he helped to create the Fluxus group, along with professors Robert Watts, Geoffrey Hendricks and Roy Lichtenstein, artists George Brecht and George Segal, and undergraduates Lucas Samaras and Robert Whitman.[2] Through a long teaching career, he taught at Rutgers until 1961,[3]"

This seems wrong. For one, Kaprow was generally opposed to Fluxus. Here is a quote from 1964:

The group, with few exceptions, that associates itself with Fluxus is irresponsible. It is my impression that many people just simply goof-off and pretend in a kind of very very nasty way, socially speaking, and certainly socially with respect to other artists, that they have certain superiority in their seemingly indifferent little activities such as a sneeze tomorrow or a finger is as good as a hole in the wall, or any of these little directives which if acted out are somehow to me important rather than unimportant so far as its effect is to say to me and others - "You guys are doing important things, but look, we are even more important doing unimportant things.” (Armstrong et al. 1993, 166)

Armstrong, Elizabeth, Joan Rothfuss, Simon Anderson, and Walker Art Center. 1993. In the Spirit of Fluxus: Published on the Occasion of the Exhibition. 1st ed. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center.

Also, while one could make a decent argument that Fluxus began before it was named (probably starting in around 1959-60). The word Fluxus was not used publicly until 1962, a year AFTER Kaprow leaves Rutgers. So it is wrong on the facts and the timeline doesn't fit. Kaprow did Happenings and made Environments. He would likely be aghast and being associated with Fluxus, which was a very different aesthetic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kpp9c (talk • contribs) 14:37, 11 March 2020 (UTC)