Title: Bull Shit 01. October/November 1991. (Allan Kaprow / 7 Environments / Introduction to a Theory).
Description: Milan, Italy: Multhipla Edizioni, 1991. 1991. - Folio, 19 inches high by 13-5/8 inches wide. Softcover, bound in pictorial self-wraps, titled in pink along the top of the cover page above a black & white portrait of the artist Allan Kaprow spreading green paint on a canvas from a brown container and with the text beginning at the bottom of the cover page. [8] unnumbered pages, including the covers, with several textual illustrations and a large double-page centerfold photograph of the artist working on his 1961 "Environment", "Yard". This unusual catalog is folded in half horizontally. There is some minor soiling with a few creases to the corners and edges, faint red stains to the bottom edge of the cover page and a tiny tear along the fold at the front edge of the pages. Very good.
An unusual catalog for the exhibition "Allan Kaprow / 7 Environments" held at the Fondazione Mudima in Milan in 1991 and the Studio Morra in Naples in 1992. As per Kaprow's introductory text titled "Introduction to a Theory": "This exhibition (Fall 1991) at Fondazione Mudima in Milano and (Winter '92) at Studio Morra in Napoli, consists of reinventions of seven Environments made between 1957 and 1964. I say reinventions, rather than reconstructions, because the seven works differ markedly from their originals. Intentionally so. As I wrote in the notes to one of them, they were planned to change. This decision was the polar opposite of the belief that art should aspire to a penultimate steady state."
The 7 "Environments" here described and depicted consist of "Beauty parlor (1957/58", "Apple Shrine (1960)", "Stockroom (1960)", "Yard (1961)", "Words (1962)", "Push and pull: (1963)" and "Eat (1964)".
"Bull Shit is not an art magazine, nor simply a catalogue of an exhibition. It intends to offer documentation of 'special ' art-works on the part of 'special' contemporary artists." "Bull Shit will usually be published on the occasion of an exhibition at Fondazione Mudima, and each issue will be prepared in collaboration with the artist." "This first issue of Bull Shit appears on the occasion of the Mudima exhibition of the works of Allan Kaprow. It contains his 'Theory of Environments.' as written expressly for this publication, as well his description of the seven environments which he has re-created and re-invented for this exhibition." - [Quoted from the publisher's descriptive text at the bottom of the first page].
RARE. WorldCat locates only 5 copies. Very good .
Keywords: ART; CONCEPTUAL; VISUAL; BULL SHIT 01; CATALOG; PERIODICAL; ENVIRONMENTS; ALLAN KAPROW; ARTIST; HAPPENINGS; OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 1991; FONDAZIONE MUDIMA; STUDIO MORRA; EXHIBITION; 20TH CENTURY; ILLUSTRATED; ILLUSTRATIONS; RARE; CENTERFOLD.
- Book number: 98202
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