Title
Allan Kaprow, Robert Smithson, and the limits to art / by Philip Ursprung ; translated by Fiona Elliott.
Uniform Title
Grenzen der Kunst. English
ISBN
9780520245419 hardcover
0520245415 hardcover
Publication Details
Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [2013]
Language
English
Language Note
Translated from the German.
Description
xiii, 324 pages ; 24 cm
Call Number
N6537.K27 U7713 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification
709.2/2
Summary
"This innovative study of two of the most important artists of the twentieth century links the art practices of Allan Kaprow and Robert Smithson in their attempts to test the limits of art--both what it is and where it is. Ursprung provides a sophisticated yet accessible analysis, placing the two artists firmly in the art world of the 1960s as well as in the art historical discourse of the following decades. Although their practices were quite different, they both extended the studio and gallery into desert landscapes, abandoned warehouses, industrial sites, train stations, and other spaces. Ursprung bolsters his argument with substantial archival research and sociological and economic models of expansion and limits"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-307) and index.
Machine generated contents note: Allan Kaprow And The Limits To Painting
"Oedipal-just for fun": Allan Kaprow and Art History
The Happeners' Bodies
The Triumph of Pop Art
Performing Architecture
The Limits To Sculpture: Robert Smithson And Earth Art
The Excursions: Critiquing Minimalism
The Triumph of Minimal Art
Site and Nonsite
Earthworks
The Limits To Art History.