Allan Kaprow, Robert Smithson, and the Limits to Art
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abandoned warehouses
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allan kaprow
american art history
american artist
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artistic limitations
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happenings
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land art
limits to art history
limits to painting
limits to sculpture
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performing arts
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robert smithson
sculpture
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testing the limits of art
train stations
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- ISBN 9780520245419
- Weight: 680g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 10 May 2013
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Philip Ursprung is Swiss National Science Foundation Professor for Art History at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Visiting Curator at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, and an elected member of the Swiss Federal Commission for the Arts.
