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“Not satisfied with the suggestion through paint of our other senses, we shall utilize the specific substances of sight, sound, movements, people, odors, touch. Objects of every sort of materials for the new art: paint, chairs, food, electric and neon lights, smoke, water, old socks, a dog, movies, a thousand other things that will be discovered by the present generation of artists. Not only with these bold creatures show us, as if for the first time, the world we have always had about us but ignored, but they will disclose entirely unheard of happenings, and events, found in garbage cans, police files, hotel lobbies; seen in store windows and on the streets and sensed in dreams and horrible accidents. An odor of crushed strawberries, a letter from a friend, or a billboard selling Drano; three taps on the front door, a scratch, a sigh, or a voice lecturing endlessly, a blinding staccato flash, a bowler hat-all will become materials for this new concrete art.” Allan Kaprow’ Essays On The Blurring of Art and Life, The Legacy of Jackson Pollock, 1958

“Not satisfied with the suggestion through paint of our other senses, we shall utilize the specific substances of sight, sound, movements, people, odors, touch. Objects of every sort of materials for the new art: paint, chairs, food, electric and neon lights, smoke, water, old socks, a dog, movies, a thousand other things that will be discovered by the present generation of artists. Not only with these bold creatures show us, as if for the first time, the world we have always had about us but ignored, but they will disclose entirely unheard of happenings, and events, found in garbage cans, police files, hotel lobbies; seen in store windows and on the streets and sensed in dreams and horrible accidents. An odor of crushed strawberries, a letter from a friend, or a billboard selling Drano; three taps on the front door, a scratch, a sigh, or a voice lecturing endlessly, a blinding staccato flash, a bowler hat-all will become materials for this new concrete art.” Allan Kaprow’ Essays On The Blurring of Art and Life, The Legacy of Jackson Pollock, 1958