The Sixties Catalogue

35 J u l y 2 0 2 0 “One Of The Grand Antiheroes Of Contemporary Art” 33. KAPROW, Allan. Assemblage, Environments & Happenings. New York, 1966. Large square quarto, original brown burlap, dust jacket. $1700. Click for more info First edition of an impressive and massive photobook with numerous photographic images of works by artists such as Claes Oldenburg, George Segal, Jim Dine and Robert Rauschenberg, together with images of works by the Japanese Gutai Group, signed by Allan Kaprow. “One of the grand antiheroes of contemporary art…Kaprow’s influence does, in fact, live on” ( New York Times ). Title page appears at book’s center. Bookplate. Text fine, trace of label removal to front pastedown; lightest edge-wear to original acetate. An about-fine copy, scarce signed. “The line between art and life ought to be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.”