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The Score
Commentary
Emily Capper
In the late 1950s, around the same time George Brecht devised his first event scores, Allan Kaprow (American, 1926–2006) developed the “happening.” Kaprow had started out as a painter and then, in the tradition of Cubism and Dada, began to affix everyday materials to his paintings. Inspired by Jackson Pollock’s mural-size paintings and lowbrow funhouses alike, Kaprow’s work rapidly increased in scale from collages, to three-dimensional assemblages, and finally to room-size installations he termed “environments.” Kaprow constructed environments out of a signature array of everyday objects (plastic drop cloths, Christmas lights, tinfoil, mirrors). In happenings, he incorporated human participants, and gave them various actions, tasks, and games to perform.
Archive
- Kaprow’s Theories of Notation
Kaprow, How to Use these videotapes and booklets
Kaprow, interview about his approach to notation
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