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Artists›Allan Kaprow

Allan Kaprow

1927

PaintingPerformance ArtFluxus

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• Performance Art
• Fluxus

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Roy Lichtenstein

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BERLINART 1961�1987

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1987

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Video Art: A History

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1983–1984

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Bookworks

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1977

About

Why this artist matters now

Allan Kaprow was an American performance artist, installation artist, painter, and assemblagist. 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 were, in turn, influenced by his work.

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Performance Art

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Painting

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Art Institute of Chicago Museum of Modern ArtNew York

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Artworks (21)

Pose, March 22, 1969, Continued 1970 -

1969 · Manila envelope, letterpress prints on cardboard

Envelope: 37 × 22.2 cm (14 5/8 × 8 3/4 in.); Prints: 27.3 × 20 cm (10 3/4 × 7 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Pose: Carrying Chairs through the City, Sitting Down Here and There, Photographed, Pix Left on Spot, Going On from Artists & Photographs

1969 · Offset envelope, containing seven offset lithographs, from a portfolio of nineteen printed objects

sheet (each): 10 13/16 × 7 7/8" (27.4 × 20 cm); envelope: 12 × 8 7/8" (30.5 × 22.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Pose, March 22, 1969 Continued 1970 from Artists & Photographs

1969 · Seven offset lithographs from a portfolio of 19 printed objects

sheet (each): 10 13/16 x 7 7/8" (27.4 x 20 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Pose, March 22, 1969 Continued 1970 – from Artists & Photographs

1969 · Offset envelope, containing seven offset lithographs, from a portfolio of nineteen printed objects

sheet (each): 10 13/16 × 7 7/8" (27.4 × 20 cm); envelope: 12 × 8 7/8" (30.5 × 22.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled (Other Away), from Calling

1967 · Screenprint in yellow on clear plastic sheet

Sheet: 53 × 59.5 cm (20 7/8 × 23 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled (Time Long Silence), from Calling

1967 · Screenprint in brown (reddish-brown) on clear plastic sheet

Sheet: 53 × 59.5 cm (20 7/8 × 23 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled (Is Numbers And Time), from Calling

1967 · Screenprint in red on clear plastic sheet

Sheet: 53 × 59.5 cm (20 7/8 × 23 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled (Into Picked A The), from Calling

1967 · Screenprint in blue on clear plastic sheet

Sheet: 53 × 59.5 cm (20 7/8 × 23 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

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Phillips

Background

Education

High School of Music & Art

Visual Arts

Hans Hoffman School of Fine Art

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Related Artists

Roy Lichtenstein

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Exhibitions and timeline

Group Exhibition BERLINART 1961�1987

New York · 1987

Group Exhibition Video Art: A History

New York · 1983

Group Exhibition Bookworks

New York · 1977