In these notations, Kaprow focuses on the most ordinary and seemingly universal of human gestures: smiling and walking. But cataloged in this exhaustive way, the smile especially seems to lose its natural expressiveness and becomes uncanny.
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| Title | Pages from a composition notebook labeled “Theater Pieces” |
| Maker | Allan Kaprow (American, 1927–2006) |
| Date | 1959 |
| Type | sketches and materials |
| Location | Getty Research Institute, Allan Kaprow Papers, 980063, box 5, folder 6 |
Cite
Kaprow, Allan. Pages from a composition notebook
labeled “Theater Pieces”, 1959. Getty Research
Institute, Allan Kaprow Papers, 980063, box 5, folder
6. In
The Scores Project: Experimental Notation in Music,
Art, Poetry, and Dance, 1950–1975, ed. Michael Gallope, Natilee Harren, and John
Hicks. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2025.
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