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Morrill, Eric Padraic Soderlund Kelly.

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Between object and interpretation: Allan Kaprow's Happenings and environments.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Between object and interpretation: Allan Kaprow's Happenings and environments./
Author:	Morrill, Eric Padraic Soderlund Kelly.
Description:	189 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-04(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International74-04A(E).
Subject:	Art History. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3547299
ISBN:	9781267819208

Between object and interpretation: Allan Kaprow's Happenings and environments.
Morrill, Eric Padraic Soderlund Kelly.

Between object and interpretation: Allan Kaprow's Happenings and environments. - 189 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-04(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Irvine, 2012.

Between Object and Interpretation: Allan Kaprow's Happenings and Environments examines the props appearing in Kaprow's seminal works of performance art from 1959--1970, the ways in which these props were used, and the meanings that were seen to emerge. Most of the literature on Kaprow's Happenings celebrates their ephemerality and, at times, objectlessness. This dissertation therefore adds to existing scholarship by beginning with the premise that the specific materials that appeared in Happenings are also worth considering, individually and as a whole, as these objects played a determining role in the performances themselves, and shaped the possible experiences of participants.

ISBN: 9781267819208Subjects--Topical Terms:

635474
Art History.

Between object and interpretation: Allan Kaprow's Happenings and environments.
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520 $a Between Object and Interpretation: Allan Kaprow's Happenings and Environments examines the props appearing in Kaprow's seminal works of performance art from 1959--1970, the ways in which these props were used, and the meanings that were seen to emerge. Most of the literature on Kaprow's Happenings celebrates their ephemerality and, at times, objectlessness. This dissertation therefore adds to existing scholarship by beginning with the premise that the specific materials that appeared in Happenings are also worth considering, individually and as a whole, as these objects played a determining role in the performances themselves, and shaped the possible experiences of participants.
520 $a For my study, I rely primarily on archival sources and firsthand texts, and use formal and discursive analysis. I argue that Kaprow's Happenings were multi-layered events, highly structured and with referential logics that have often been overlooked, despite their being largely consistent from one performance to the next. However, the fact that these have been overlooked, I go on to argue, was a necessary condition for the emergence, during the events, of a playful learning process, one which encouraged atypical uses of conventional objects, and a reflection on the social structures and norms that the very act of performance brought to light.
520 $a To build my argument, I show that Kaprow's works were built up out of modular, repeated components, each of which was an instance of a conventional object easily named with a word. These were subsequently related and re-related by formal processes such as symmetry, opposition, and reversal, in a compositional logic that was distinct from other artists identified with the Happening movement. Certain objects were also invested with referential meaning, consistent from Happening to Happening, which was subsequently used to determine their places in the event's score. As both of these potential layers of meaning went unmentioned or even denied, performers and journalists had to do the work of generating meaning within this structured field. They did so by relating objects in Happenings amongst each other, or by relating the Happenings to their physical and cultural surroundings. Happenings, as a mediation between an ideal script an a real site, thus allowed participants to experiment with and learn about the constraints of a place and the meaning of nameable objects.
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