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Allan Kaprow – amerykański malarz, twórca i teoretyk happeningu.

Jego wczesne obrazy i asamblaże z lat 50. wiązały się z nurtem ekspresjonizmu abstrakcyjnego. Po nawiązaniu współpracy z Johnem Cage`em w 1958 roku tworzył pierwsze w Stanach Zjednoczonych environments. Najbardziej znany jest jako twórca happeningów, w których publiczność współuczestniczyła w tworzeniu dzieła. W 1967 opublikował pracę teoretyczną pt. "Assemblage, Environments and Happenings". Wikipedia  

✵ 23. Sierpień 1927 – 5. Kwiecień 2006
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Allan Kaprow: Cytaty po angielsku

“It's not what artists touch that counts most. It's what they don't touch.”

In his Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life', 1993; published by University of California Press, 4 October, 1993

“A walk down 14th street is more amazing than any masterpiece of art.”

[[http://streets2k5.albuscav.us/upstage_guide.pdfStreets 2K5 international festival Of Street Art (May 2005) p. 19

“Pollock.... left us [c. 1958] at the point where we must be preoccupied with and even dazzled by the space and objects of our everyday life, either our bodies, clothes, rooms, or, if need be, the vastness of Forty-Second Street [New York].... Objects of every sorts are materials for the new art, paints, chairs, food, electric and neon-lights, smoke, water, old socks, a dog, movies, a thousand other things which will be discovered by the present generation of artists.... All will become materials for this new concrete art.”

In his essay 'The legacy of Jackson Pollock', published in 'ARTnews', Fall of 1958; as quoted by Christina Bryan Rosenberger, in 'Drawing the Line: The Early Work of Agnes Martin', Univ. of California Press, July 2016, p 121
this essay of 1958 became more or less an art-manifesto for the generation American artists after Abstract Expressionism

“You can't teach colour from Cézanne, you can only teach it from something like this bubble-gum wrapper.”

PORTRAITS, Talking with Artists at the Met, The Modern, The Louvre and Elsewhere (1998) by Michael Kimmelman http://www.lichtensteinfoundation.org/kimmelman1.htm

“The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.”

'Transfiguration of the Commonplace' by Anna Dezeuze in Variant 22 (Spring 2005) http://www.variant.randomstate.org/22texts/Dezeuze.html.

“The problem with artlike art, or even doses of artlike art that still linger in lifelike art, is that it overemphasizes the discourse within art.”

in 'Journal of Contemporary Art', Inc. accessed 2008-04-28 http://www.jca-online.com/kaprow.html