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5 pages in length. The writer discusses Allan Kaprow, Michael Fried and Donald Judd as they relate to the artistic movement of Minimalism. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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to Kaprow, such friction established nothing more than unnecessary discord between artist and the flow of creativity; as such, artist must learn to "un-art" themselves in order to step back
and allow themselves to create from an entirely neutral zone. "An un-artist is one who is engaged in changing jobs, in modernising. It is quite possible to shift
the whole un-artistic operation slyly away from where the arts customarily congregate...In these different capacities, the several kinds of art discussed would operate indirectly as a stored code, which, instead
of programming a specific course of behaviour, would facilitate an attitude of deliberate playfulness toward all professionalising activities well beyond art" (Kaprow PG).
Kaprow envisioned Environments and Happenings changing the way that the viewer-participant related to works of art - and, therefore, endorsed this kind of art - by way of rejecting
traditions that perpetuated the "conceit that everyone in the audience sees the same picture" (Happenings and Other Acts). Kaprows intention was to eliminate the misunderstandings inherent to the Happenings
structure, inasmuch as its compartmentalized status did not necessarily denote the segregation of individual units and "cannot be organized into an imaginary time/space universe characteristic to traditional theatre since there
is no causal plot" (Happenings and Other Acts). The culmination of Kaprows objective indicates that Happening is both "non-diegetic and non-matrixed" (Happenings and Other Acts) with regard to time
and place relations, as well as action is a combination of undeterminate and functional. When the student analyzes Kaprows intentional blurring of boundaries between art and life, it is important
to examine what kind of worldview he may have had and how the aspect of blurred boundaries represented it. Artistic creativity is a powerful entity, in that it can
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