ALLAN KAPROW happening LP 1966 mass art avant HEAR
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ALLAN KAPROW happening LP 1966 mass art avant HEAR!
ARTIST: ALLAN KAPROW
TITLE: How to Make a Happening
LABEL: Mas Art Inc.
Allan Kaprow "How to make a Happening?" LP issued by Mass Art Inc. (M-132A,B) in USA, 1966. Silk-screened sleeve. Top important and rare historical art documentation LP on the highly collectible Mass Art Inc. Spoken word pre-hippie NYC art aesthetics and philosophy in the form of an 11-step instruction on "how to stage a happening". Kaprow was the leader of the Paths of Action movement and influential in the evolution of "happenings" in the early 1960s. Side 2 adds some poetry to the instructions. An important piece of 60s crossover culture. From back cover: "In 1957 Allen Kaprow decided to try out the possibility that the ’action’ of Action Painting was a ritual act of creation, not just an incidental frenzy of movement that produced wild canvases. That decision effectively ended his growing career as a painter. Since then he has given to the world a word: the Happening. From Murray the K's radio program to the Revlon commercials, to peace marches and sit-ins, to the campaigns of politicians-that word seems to have satisfied a need to evoke the zest, freakishness and game of the life around us. Kaprow himself finds the Cape Kennedy rocket launchings among the most powerful quasi-Happenings. And one embittered cynic recently compared the war in Viet Nam to a ’Happening gone out of control’. Most important, an art form has developed in the last nine years, and more than fitfty men and women around the globe are making Happenings of one kind or another. During this time Allan Kaprow has emerged not only as the inventor and theorist of the movement, but as a creator of works whose expressive range extends from the funny to the somber, and whose experimental nature has set the pace for a field. It is now inconceivable for anyone working in th art not to deal with the paths of action he has marked off". Kaprow was an American painter, assembly artist and a pioneer in establishing the concepts of performance art. He helped to develop the "Environment" and "Happening" in the late 1950s and 1960s, as well as their theory. His Happenings, some 200 of them, evolved over the years. Eventually Kaprow shifted his practice into what he called "Activities", intimately-scaled pieces for one or several players and devoted to the examination of everyday behaviors and habits in a way nearly indistinguishable from ordinary life. Fluxus, Performance art and installation art was, in turn, influenced by his work. He studied composition with John Cage at his famous class at the New School for Social Research. "A happening is a gang with a high". ****** Some surface noise present on both sides, no click nor scratches. Plays great for such an old pressing! ... This is the ORIGINAL VINYL LP pressing, it is NOT the CD or CD-ROM version! This is the REAL DEAL!
COVER: very strong VG++
VINYL: very strong VG++, vinyl discolored
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