T D 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Allan Kaprow, Performance Art, Conceptual Art
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Anti-bourgeois: taking apart the high art conception. Value is in interpretation rather than the object itself. Push against the enlightenment period which favored reason and logic to. Favored impulse and intuition over reason and logic. The way the art comes to be is far more significant that the aesthetic value of the work. The point of it rather than the reality of it. The splatter paint picture is more interested in the movement required to paint, rather than the actual finished product. Meaning derived from personal perception and interpretation. Always makes use of the body: an actual body has to be in the performance art. Can be staged on the street, in the theatre, or in an art museum. Interested in: endurance: performances that last a long time, could last day or weeks or months, pain: a lot of her pieces push the boundaries on the threshold of pain, risk: the risk that comes from performing live.
