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KAPROW, Allan. Experimental Art
KAPROW, Allan. Experimental Art
KAPROW, Allan. Experimental Art
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The experimental artist always denies art within the circle of art,
submitting his alternative actions for acceptance as the preferable form
of what he has rejected . Even if he occasionally refuses the
accreditation when it is given, he does so to prolong the experimental
atmosphere since the experiment could not be performed elsewhere
without losing its identity and the issues it proposes to .tackle. This
acceptance as art, no matter how late it comes, is in my view the goal.
The temporary ambiguity of experimental action is quite appropriate,
for in leaving art, nothing is real ly escaped from; as it is suppressed it
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