18 Happenings in Six Parts by Allan Kaprow
  • ephemera
  • offset-printed
  • loose leaves
  • black-and-white
  • 28 x 21.6 cm.
  • [1] pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered

18 Happenings in Six Parts by Allan Kaprow

Allan Kaprow

18 Happenings in Six Parts by Allan Kaprow

description

Single sided handbill published in conjunction with the first performance of Allan Kaprow's first happening, "18 Happenings in Six Parts by Allan Kaprow," held October, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 1959 at The Reuben Gallery, New York. Includes cast of participants: Kaprow, Rosalyn Montague, Shirley Prendergast, Lucas Samaras, Janet Weinberger, Robert Whitman, Sam Francis, Red Grooms, Dick Higgins, Lester Johnson, Alfred Leslie, Jay Milder, George Segal and Robert Thompson. Also includes "Instructions" describing, loosely, the actions of the happening. Developed within John Cage's experimental music class at The New School, "18 Happenings in Six Parts" has been described as the first "happening" in the lineage of works to be enacted by Kaprow's generation of artists, inclusive of Claes Oldenburg, Jim Dine, Robert Whitman and others.

references

04.10.59, No. 1 in "Happening & Fluxus" by Hans Sohm, Harald Szeemann. Cologne, Germany : Koelnischer Kunstverein, 1970, unpaginated.
"Allan Kaprow : 18 Happenings in 6 Parts" by Andrè Lepeke, Eva Meyer-Hermann, Stefanie Rosenthal. London / London, United Kingdom : Steidl / Hauser & Wirth, 2007.
New York, NY: Reuben Gallery,
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$1,500.00
Condition:  Very Good. Light overall age to sheet and very small rust stain at lower left corner. Flattened fold and handling marks.
[Object # 23366]