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Off Limits : Rutgers University and the Avant-Garde, 1957-1963 by Joan Marter (1999, Trade Paperback)

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Off Limits: Rutgers University and the Avant-Garde, 1957-1963. Publisher: Rutgers University Press Mar 1 1999. Shrink wrapped! Internal SKU: F13E-01166.

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PublisherRutgers University Press

ISBN-100813526108

ISBN-139780813526102

eBay Product ID (ePID)413738

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Number of Pages216 Pages

Publication NameOff Limits : Rutgers University and the Avantgarde, 1957-1963

LanguageEnglish

SubjectGeneral, Aesthetics, Higher

Publication Year1999

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaArt, Philosophy, Education

AuthorJoan Marter

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight28 Oz

Item Length11 in

Item Width8.5 in

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ReviewsRutgers University was the improbable hotbed of Happenings, Fluxus, and Pop Art from 1957 to the early 1960s. Off Limits provides a lively, comprehensive account of avant-garde activities of Allan Kaprow, George Segal, Lucas Samaras, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Watts and their colleagues., This important book uncovers the beginnings of Pop Art and the avant-garde movement of the sixties, which, it turns out, began at Rutgers University. The personalities and productions by these innovative artists make for energetic and challenging reading. Off Limits is art history with all the excitement and challenge of the innovative art itself., Not since Blam: The Explosion of Pop, Minimalism & Performance 1958û1964 . . . has such an extensive, well illustrated catalogue charted this aesthetically diverse period. It contains interviews with six of the artists in the exhibition. . . . The catalogue also includes a serviceable bibliography, an extensive chronology, and a number of previously unpublished black-and-white and color photographs., Not since Blam: The Explosion of Pop, Minimalism & Performance 19581964 . . . has such an extensive, well illustrated catalogue charted this aesthetically diverse period. It contains interviews with six of the artists in the exhibition. . . . The catalogue also includes a serviceable bibliography, an extensive chronology, and a number of previously unpublished black-and-white and color photographs.

Dewey Edition21

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal707/.1/174942

SynopsisOff 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., 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.

LC Classification NumberNX510.N42N486 1999