Week 2

Beyond Abstract Expressionism: happenings and the “blurring of art and life”

Section Handout/Texts

Allan Kaprow, How to make a happening [TRANSCRIPT]


Presentations

From Abstract Expressionism to Happenings


Abstract Expressionism-Further Reading

James Sweet, Parodic Nostalgia for Aesthetic Machismo: Frank O'Hara and Jackson Pollock
Frantisek Deak, Allan Kaprow 1927-2006


Happenings Further Reading

Allan Kaprow, The Happenings Are Dead Long Live the Happenings


Links

Happenings
  Allan Kaprow on Ubuweb
  Allan Kaprow, How to Make a Happening
  Allan Kaprow - Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life on google books
Abstract Expressionism
  Mark Rothko Collected Writings on google books
  Abstract Expressionism -The Museum of Modern Art New York
  Abstract Expressionism -MOMA Learning
  Jackson Pollock at the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art Historty -Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
  Jane Freilicher Obituary Art News