Allan Kaprow / 2 Measures
KAPROW Allan (Atlantic City 1927 - Encinitas, California 2006)
Torino, Martano Editore, 1974, 34x24,5 cm., softcover, pp. [40], cover with graphic composition of the title in black, 47 illustrations with black and white photographic images of two different performances: the first, "Affects" held at the Martano Gallery in Turin on October 14, 1974, the second, "Take Off" made in Genoa for the Galleria Martini Ronchetti in six different apartments. Texts by Allan Kaprow with Italian translation by Ester Carla de Miro d'Ajeta. Photographs by Bee Ottinger. First edition. Slight shading on cover.
Bibliography: Maffei 2011: pp. 58-61; Lailach 2005: page 130.
KAPROW Allan (Atlantic City 1927 - Encinitas, California 2006)
Torino, Martano Editore, 1974, 34x24,5 cm., softcover, pp. [40], cover with graphic composition of the title in black, 47 illustrations with black and white photographic images of two different performances: the first, "Affects" held at the Martano Gallery in Turin on October 14, 1974, the second, "Take Off" made in Genoa for the Galleria Martini Ronchetti in six different apartments. Texts by Allan Kaprow with Italian translation by Ester Carla de Miro d'Ajeta. Photographs by Bee Ottinger. First edition. Slight shading on cover.
Bibliography: Maffei 2011: pp. 58-61; Lailach 2005: page 130.
KAPROW Allan (Atlantic City 1927 - Encinitas, California 2006)
Torino, Martano Editore, 1974, 34x24,5 cm., softcover, pp. [40], cover with graphic composition of the title in black, 47 illustrations with black and white photographic images of two different performances: the first, "Affects" held at the Martano Gallery in Turin on October 14, 1974, the second, "Take Off" made in Genoa for the Galleria Martini Ronchetti in six different apartments. Texts by Allan Kaprow with Italian translation by Ester Carla de Miro d'Ajeta. Photographs by Bee Ottinger. First edition. Slight shading on cover.
Bibliography: Maffei 2011: pp. 58-61; Lailach 2005: page 130.
AFFECT, like another recent pieces, is composed of our familiar notions of warmth and coldness in personalities; or ardor and distance in connection with body temperatura; and of dry moments of life and moist ones. Il plays with American verbal expressions that refer to these traits, such as "freezing a person out" (excluding them from a particular group), telling someone to "dry up" ( meaning she or he is "all wet"or wrong), saying someone is dry as "dust"(dull) or is "in hot water" (trouble). [pag.12]
TAKE-OFF is at once a parody and a series of collusions masked as deceptions (or put-ons). The central issue is trust in the truthfulness and loyalty of a confederate. The confederate is trusted to carry a desired impression to another person. But she or he is also the confederate of that other person and may not be loyal. The possibility of secrecy and intimacy exist on all sides. And betrayal. [pag.32]
