Allan Kaprow, Robert Smithson, and the Limits to Art

by Philip Ursprung

This innovative study of two of the most important artists of the twentieth century links the art practices of Allan Kaprow and Robert Smithson in their attempts to test the limits of art--both what it is and where it is. Ursprung provides a sophisticated yet accessible analysis, placing the two artists firmly in the art world of the 1960s as well as in the art historical discourse of the following decades. Although their practices were quite different,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520245415
• ISBN13: 9780520245419
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.1"