Allan Kaprow Yard -	 Art Inventor of the Happening | Art Installations, Sculpture, Contemporary Art | Scoop.it

Allan Kaprow made his first public happening, Communication in April 1958 on an American university campus. Except that at the time nobody knows what is happening, including Allan Kaprow who do theorize that shortly after, always in spring 1958, in the journalAnthologist, where he published the article: "Something to take place: a happening. " 

Artist and academic Alla Kaprow revisit throughout his career Environments, Actions and Happenings he created. These are read in light of this: "I am interested in this continuity, so it is not a reinvention and reconstruction. Using a metaphor or a material that I remember, I invented new work in relation to the current circumstances. "(Mac Allan Kaprow in Lyon, works entered the collection in 1996 and 1998, 2010 .) 

Today to 40 years of LCdr 40 tonnes of tires are dumped into the nave of the CAPC. Yard and "reinvented". 

Environment cult American artist Allan Kaprow, Yard knows his first intrusion into the courtyard of the Martha Jackson Gallery in New York in 1961, success. 


Via Philippe Lejeune