How to Make a Happening
Object number1979.0282.A
TitleHow to Make a Happening
Creator Allan Kaprow (artiest), Mass Art Inc. (platenlabel), Something Else Press Inc.
Descriptionlangspeelplaat 'How to Make a Happening' van Allan Kaprow, Mass Art Inc. (op plaatlabel), Something Else Press (1966), 33 1/3 rpm, plaatnummer M-132; NB: 'Kaprow, Allan / How to make a happening / 1966. Cover: b/w, photo: Sol Goldberg from Allan Kaprow's Happening 'Household', Cornell University, 1964. Special issue with silk-screen on plastic cover by Alison Knowles. 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'.' [bron: www.aqualoop.com]
Production placeNew York, NY
Production date 1966
Production period20e eeuw
Object namegrammofoonplaten, langspeelplaten, platenhoezen
Object categoryaudiovisuele materialen, grafische vormgeving
Materialvinyl
Dimensions
- plaat diameter: 30 cm