Descriptive Summary
Title:
Allan Kaprow papers,
1940-1997
Collection number:
Accession no. 980063
Creator:
Kaprow, Allan
Extent:
ca. 63.5 linear ft.
(113 boxes, 16 flat file folders, 2 rolls)
Abstract:
The Allan Kaprow Papers offer comprehensive documentation of an artistic career that spanned the latter half of the 20th century and continues into the 21st. Arranged chronologically so as to demonstrate the artist's passage from student of art and art history to practicing artist, art theorist and art educator, the collection contains drawings, term papers and notebooks from Kaprow's student days, followed by ca. 250 Project Files, comprising the complete extant documentation of Kaprow's Environments, Happenings, and Activities.
Language:
English.
