ISBN: 9780813526102 - off limits: rutgers university and the avant-garde, 1957-1963 (7 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Off Limits is the first examination of the Rutgers group, artists who came together on the Rutgers University, New Brunswick campus during the 1950s and revolutionized art practices and pedagogy. Based on interviews with artists, critics, and dealers from the period, the book connects the initiation of major trends such as Happenings, Pop Art, and Fluxus to the faculty, students, art curriculum, and events at the university. It is the first book to look not only at the work of individual artists, but to consider how interactions between these artists influenced their groundbreaking work.Rutgers was clearly the place to be for experimental artists during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Allan Kaprow's first Happening was presented at Rutgers. Roy Lichtenstein's first Pop paintings, George Segal's earliest figurative tableaux, Lucas Samaras's radical exploration of media, and proto-Fluxus events by Robert Watts and George Brecht all took place on and around the campus. The innovative group rejected Abstract Expressionism for art based on the immediate experience of urban and industrial life, creating startling new artforms which remain startling and provocative. Led by the theoretical writings and art practice of Kaprow, the group created a New Art--art beyond the limits of the conventional and predictable, even beyond accepted notions of progressive trends. Lichtenstein recalls in an interview, Kaprow showed us that art didn't have to look like art. Along with Lichtenstein, Kaprow, Segal, and Watts taught at Rutgers and challenged one another to take art Off Limits -- beyond the limits of the conventional, the predictable -- even beyond the progressive, as defined by Abstract Expressionist gesturalism. Their art incorporated the gritty environs, the technological, the everyday, making art radical, outrageous, disturbing, and humorous.…

Zustand: Fine. 1st. Used book that is in almost brand-new condition. May contain a remainder mark. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: New. 1999. paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Zustand: Good. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.…

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,900grams, ISBN:9780813526102.

4°, 194 S., mit 93 s/w und 31 farbigen Abbildungen. Orig.-Karton. Erste Ausgabe.-Interviews mit Allan Kaprow, Geoffrey Hendricks, Roy Lichtenstein, Lucas Samaras, George Segal, Robert Whitman und Letty Lou Eisenhauer.- Gutes Exemplar.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 194 pages. 11.00x8.25x0.25 inches. In Stock.