OFfers a survey of post-Tiananmen Square Chinese art and culture. This work work reveals, contemporary Chinese art is more haunted than cynical, more a matter of a nation's suppressed psychic expression than of pop iconoclasm or ironic detachment. It also assesses the Logan Collection.
This collection of the writings of Allan Kaprow brings into focus his philosophical inquiry into the paradoxical relationship of art to life and into the nature of meaning itself.
Allan Kaprow has been described as an avant-garde revolutionary, a radical sociologist, a Zen(ish) monk, a progressive educator, and an anti-art theorist. This book offers a description of Kaprow's Happenings and other art activities, clarifying their materiality, duration, and setting, as well as the ways in which people participated in them.
Allan Kaprow has been described as an avant-garde revolutionary, a radical sociologist, a Zen(ish) monk, a progressive educator, and an anti-art theorist. This book brings the artist, his era, and work to life by showing that Kaprow's artworks were physically present, socially engaged, and intellectually resonant in the moment of their enactment.