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This may leave space and time as its only dimensional constants, implying dissolution of the line between " art " and " life "; Kaprow noted that “ if we bypass ‘ art and take nature itself as a model or point of departure, we may be able to devise a different kind of art ... out of the sensory stuff of ordinary life ” ( Kaprow 12 ).
A note about the cover image in January 1958 s Art News pointed out that “ Johns first one-man show … places him with such better-known colleagues as Rauschenberg, Twombly, Kaprow and Ray Johnson ”.

Kaprow and piece
Prototypic for the artform later explicitly labeled " performance art ", were works of artists like Yoko Ono with her Wall piece for orchestra ( 1962 ); Carolee Schneemann with pieces like Meat Joy ( 1964 ); Wolf Vostell with his Happening YOU ( 1964 in New York ); Joseph Beuys with How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare ( 1965 ); Yayoi Kusama, with actions such as a naked flag-burning on the Brooklyn Bridge ( 1968 ) and Allan Kaprow in his many Happenings.

Kaprow and 18
When he is 18, John gets in touch with a paleonthologist, Alistair Patrick Blair, who serves as prime minister in the fictional country of Zarakal ( approximately representing Kenya according to the author's preface ) and works closely with a US physical scientist, Woodrow Kaprow, who has developed a time machine which brings John back to the era he dreams of.

Kaprow and Happenings
Jack Kerouac referred to Kaprow as " The Happenings man ", and an ad showing a woman floating in outer space declared, " I dreamt I was in a happening in my Maidenform brassiere ".
As Kaprow wrote in his essay, "' Happenings ' in the New York Scene ", " Visitors to a Happening are now and then not sure what has taken place, when it has ended, even when things have gone ' wrong '.
Notably in the Happenings of Allan Kaprow, the audience members become performers.
Other artists who created Happenings besides Kaprow include Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Whitman, and Wolf Vostell: Theater is in the Street ( Paris in 1958 ).
Allan Kaprow, Joseph Beuys, Nam June Paik, Wolf Vostell, Claes Oldenburg, Jim Dine, Red Grooms, and Robert Whitman among others were notable creators of Happenings.
From 1961 on, Johnson periodically staged events he called " Nothings ", described to his friend William Wilson as “ an attitude as opposed to a happening ”, which would parallel theHappeningsof Allan Kaprow and later Fluxus events.
Pioneered with artists Claes Oldenburg and Allan Kaprow, in conjunction with musician John Cage, the " Happenings " were chaotic performance art that was a stark contrast with the more somber mood of the expressionists popular in the New York art world.

Kaprow and 6
Allan Kaprow used the term “ Environment ” in 1958 ( Kaprow 6 ) to describe his transformed indoor spaces ; this later joined such terms as “ project art ” and “ temporary art .”

Kaprow and commonly
The most commonly cited include the series of Chamber's Street loft concerts, New York, curated by Yoko Ono and La Monte Young in 1961 featuring pieces by Jackson Mac Low and Henry Flynt, the month-long Yam festival held in upstate New York by George Brecht and Robert Watts in May, 1963 with Ray Johnson and Allan Kaprow that was the culmination of a year's worth of Mail Art pieces, and a series of concerts held in Mary Bauermeister's studio, Cologne, 1960-61 featuring Nam June Paik and John Cage amongst many others.

Kaprow and first
Notable creators of happenings included Allan Kaprow — who first used the term in 1958, Claes Oldenburg, Jim Dine, Red Grooms, and Robert Whitman.
Allan Kaprow first coined the term " happening " in the spring of 1957 at an art picnic at George Segal's farm to describe the art pieces that were going on.

Kaprow and although
At school, he developed a reputation as something of a prankster, although his actions were closer to the spirit of performance art happenings promoted by one of his professors, Allan Kaprow, than to fraternity hijinks.

Kaprow and performance
Schneemann and Jonas along with Yoko Ono, Joseph Beuys, Nam June Paik, Wolf Vostell, Allan Kaprow, Vito Acconci, and Chris Burden pioneered the relationship between Body art and performance art.
Allan Kaprow ( August 23, 1927 – April 5, 2006 ) was an American painter, assemblagist and a pioneer in establishing the concepts of performance art.

Kaprow and No
No wonder Kaprow called Grooms " a Charlie Chaplin forever dreaming about fire ".

Kaprow and .
In 1960, he started teaching at Rutgers University where he was heavily influenced by Allan Kaprow, who was also a teacher at the university.
Writer Douglas Kahn, in his work Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts ( 1999 ), discusses the use of noise as a medium and explores the ideas of Antonin Artaud, George Brecht, William Burroughs, Sergei Eisenstein, Fluxus, Allan Kaprow, Michael McClure, Yoko Ono, Jackson Pollock, Luigi Russolo, and Dziga Vertov.
One definition comes from Wardrip-Fruin and Montfort in The New Media Reader, " The term " Happening " has been used to describe many performances and events, organized by Allan Kaprow and others during the 1950s and 1960s, including a number of theatrical productions that were traditionally scripted and invited only limited audience interaction.
As Kaprow explains in the aforementioned essay, since the performances are always different, each one of these artists cannot lose their creative drive to a mainstream force.
Kaprow supports that " happenings invite us to cast aside for a moment these proper manners and partake wholly in the real nature of the art and life.
Both Kaprow and Boal are reinventing theater to try to make plays more interactive and to abolish the traditional narrative form to make theater something more free-form and organic.
Early non-Western installation art includes events staged by the Gutai group in Japan starting in 1954, which influenced American installation pioneers like Allan Kaprow.
Kaprow had coined the term Happening describing a new artform, at the beginning of the 1960s.
Subsequently, Blau was instrumental in hiring a number of professionals like Mel Powell ( dean of the School of Music ), Paul Brach ( dean of the School of Art ), Alexander Mackendrick ( dean of the School of Film / Video ), sociologist Maurice Stein ( dean of Critical Studies ), and Richard Farson ( dean of the School of Design ; now incorporated in the Art school ) as well other influential program heads and teachers such as Allan Kaprow, Bella Lewitzky, Michael Asher, Jules Engel, John Baldessari, Judy Chicago, James Hurtak, Ravi Shankar, Max Kozloff, Miriam Shapiro and Douglas Huebler, most of whom largely came from a counterculture and avant-garde side of the art world.
In addition, the program developed a substantial visiting artist tradition, bringing artists such as Dick Higgins, Vito Acconci, Allan Kaprow, Karen Finley, Robert Wilson and others to work directly with Intermedia students.
* Allan Kaprow versus Robert Morris.
As well as Maciunas ' concerts at the AG Gallery, March 1961 featuring music and events by Maciunas himself, Ichiyanagi, Mac Low and Higgins, the two other most important precursors to fluxus were La Monte Young's influential series of performances in the Chambers Street loft of Yoko Ono and Ichiyanagi Toshi, in 1961 involving Henry Flynt, La Monte Young, Joseph Byrd & Robert Morris amongst others ; and Robert Watts and George Brecht's Yam Festival, spring 1963 at Rutgers University and New York, which included a series of mail art event scores and performances by John Cage, Allan Kaprow, Alison Knowles, Ay O and Dick Higgins.
In 1960, whilst attending composition classes of the electronic composer Richard Maxfield at the New School for Social Research in New York, Maciunas met many of the future participants of Fluxus, including La Monte Young, Al Hansen, Allan Kaprow, & Jackson Mac Low.

Kaprow and at
As an undergraduate at New York University, Kaprow was influenced by John Dewey's book Art as Experience
He has organized museum retrospectives of Allan Kaprow ( 1979 ) and Komar and Melamid ( 1980 ), both at the Ulrich Museum of Art in Kansas.
At that point he received a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York ( September 1968 to June 1969 ) to work with Allan Kaprow, the “ happener ,” who was a Professor of Art at the State University of New York, Stoneybrook, on teacher education and the development of creative curriculum that crossed disciplinary and artistic boundaries.
In the sixties, Greenberg's and Fried's modernist doctrine dominated the American discussions on art ; meanwhile, the artists Allan Kaprow, Dick Higgins, Henry Flynt, Mel Bochner, Robert Smithson and Joseph Kosuth wrote articles on art exemplifying a pluralistic anti-and post-modernist tendency which gained more influence at the end of the sixties.
The meetings also led to both Brecht and Kaprow attending John Cage's class at The New School for Social Research, New York, often driving down together from New Brunswick.
* 2006 premiered Kaprow City a performative installation at the Volksbühne in Berlin

Kaprow and by
Ansätze zu einer Kunstgeschichte als Mediengeschichte article in German by Thomas Dreher on the competing theories on art by Allan Kaprow and Robert Morris

Kaprow and John
Artists linked with the term include Genpei Akasegawa, John Chamberlain, Jim Dine, Kommissar Hjuler, Jasper Johns, Yves Klein, George Maciunas, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Allan Kaprow, George Brecht, Wolf Vostell, Joseph Beuys, Dick Higgins, Ushio Shinohara, and Robert Rauschenberg.
Artists participating in the festival included Alison Knowles, Allan Kaprow, John Cage, Al Hansen, Ay-O, Dick Higgins, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Ray Johnson.

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