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Article: "Off-limits: Rutgers University and the Avant Garde, 1957-1963.".(various artists, Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey)
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- Artforum International
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- June 22, 1999
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NEWARK MUSEUM
In 1959, when Lucas Samaras was a flamboyant, patchwork-dressed undergrad at Rutgers, his senior thesis show included a concrete poem with the word "Fuck fuck fuck fuck . . ." inscribing a near square with a concluding "you" appended at the end. Samaras's brilliantly jejune production resulted in a huge administrative commotion, which led to his teacher Allan Kaprow being passed over for tenure and, in 1961, leaving the school. Such incidents are entirely characteristic of the wild and crazy mood at Rutgers in the late '50s and early '60s. Roy Lichtenstein, perhaps under Kaprow's influence, made his first hand-painted Pop works in 1961 while ...
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