Allan Kaprow Yard Analysis
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Allan Kaprow
“Yard”
1961
Martha Jackson Gallery's backyard, New York
The beginnings of the Environmental Art and “Happenings” Movement
Allan Kaprow filled the outdoor courtyard with tires. This work was named “yard” and it became known for enlightening modern art on the expanded sculpture’s possibilities. It was also an attempt for art to create a new physical engagement with viewers, allowing them the interaction between themselves and art. This incorporation of interaction with viewers allowed them to manipulate the art, making the sculpture ever changing and thus making the viewers both the subject of the art and the author. Artists were inspired by Kaprow’s concept of this piece and soon followed suit. And so begun the Environmental …show more content…
It is build up from the lake’s depths by relocating the local materials, such as black basalt rocks and earth gathered from the site, and organizing them into shape. The location of the ‘Spiral Jetty’ attracted Smithson for its isolation from society and the reddish quality of the water in that section of the lake, which reminded him of blood. He designed Spiral Jetty so that the earthwork could be submerged according the lake’s water level. The relationship between the Spiral Jetty and the Great Salt Lake emphasizes the process of erosion, with which he was continually interested …show more content…
Each place setting is meant for a different woman of honor, with embroidered runners, gold chalices and utensils, and china-painted porcelain plates in styles appropriated to the individual women being honored. In each setting is a raised central motif, based on the feminine symbols of the vulvar and butterfly forms. The names of another 999 other honorable women are inscribed in gold below the center of the triangular table. The Dinner Party, an important icon of 1970s Feminist
Allan Kaprow
“Yard”
1961
Martha Jackson Gallery's backyard, New York
The beginnings of the Environmental Art and “Happenings” Movement
Allan Kaprow filled the outdoor courtyard with tires. This work was named “yard” and it became known for enlightening modern art on the expanded sculpture’s possibilities. It was also an attempt for art to create a new physical engagement with viewers, allowing them the interaction between themselves and art. This incorporation of interaction with viewers allowed them to manipulate the art, making the sculpture ever changing and thus making the viewers both the subject of the art and the author. Artists were inspired by Kaprow’s concept of this piece and soon followed suit. And so begun the Environmental …show more content…
It is build up from the lake’s depths by relocating the local materials, such as black basalt rocks and earth gathered from the site, and organizing them into shape. The location of the ‘Spiral Jetty’ attracted Smithson for its isolation from society and the reddish quality of the water in that section of the lake, which reminded him of blood. He designed Spiral Jetty so that the earthwork could be submerged according the lake’s water level. The relationship between the Spiral Jetty and the Great Salt Lake emphasizes the process of erosion, with which he was continually interested …show more content…
Each place setting is meant for a different woman of honor, with embroidered runners, gold chalices and utensils, and china-painted porcelain plates in styles appropriated to the individual women being honored. In each setting is a raised central motif, based on the feminine symbols of the vulvar and butterfly forms. The names of another 999 other honorable women are inscribed in gold below the center of the triangular table. The Dinner Party, an important icon of 1970s Feminist