ALLAN KAPROW
1927, Atlantic City, New Jersey - 2006
| MULTIPLES, EPHEMERA AND POSTERS | ||
 
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| Final Scheme for" Self-Service" [Statement and instructions by Kaprow, checklist of actions, and list of those participating] | Los Angeles | 1966 |
| Moving (poster anouncement sent to Richard Kostelanetz) | self / Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago | 1968 |
| Two incomplete letters (missing most of the "scores") pertaining to "Apple Shrine", 1960 and "Night", 1961 with Kaprows hand written notes and comments. | self / mailed letters | 1961 |
| Photographs / Documentation for: Fluids / Transfer / Record II / Course / Shape | John Gibson Gallery | 1967+ |
| Pose [from Artsits and Photographs Box] | Multiples, Inc | 1970 |
| ARTISTS BOOKS | ||
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| Echo-logy | D'Arc Press | 1975 |
| Rates of Exchange | D'Arc Press | 1975 |
| Satisfaction | D'Arc Press | 1976 |
| Time Pieces | self | 1973 |
| Untitled Essay and other works | A Great Bear Pamphlet | 1967 |
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| Allan 'n' Allen's Complaint [Kaprow is the subject of this video by Nam June Paik along with Allen Ginsberg] | VHS | 1982 |
| How To Make a Happening | originally released as an LP by Mass Art in 1966 - this is the CD version by Primary Information in 2008] | 1966 / 2008 |
| ARTICLES BY KAPROW AND INTERVIEWS | ||
| Easy | Art in America, July-August | 1974 |
| Eat / Self-Service / Calling in Happenings and Other Acts | Routledge | 1995 |
| Interview in Happenings and Other Acts | Routledge | 1995 |
| The Education of the Un-Artist III | Art in America, January - February | 1974 |
| The Shape of the Art Environment / How anti form is "Anti Form"? [a response to Morris' article of April, 1968 in Artforum: Anti Form] | Artforum, Summer | 1968 |
| Untitled Guidelines for Happenings | in Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings | 1996 |
| Useful Fictions (1975) / Postscript to "Useful Fictions" (1985) | The Act-Performance Art, Vol.1, #1 | 1986 |
| BOOKS BY KAPROW | ||
| Allan Kaprow: Art as Live | Getty Research Institute | 2008 |
| Assemblage, Environments & Happenings [by Kaprow] | Abrams | 1966 |
| Essays on The Blurring of Art and Life [by Kaprow] | University of California Press | 1993 |
| OTHER PROJECTS/PUBLICATIONS | ||
| Encounters on the road of borders [A series of collaborative performances organized by Suzanne Lacy in Findland and Russia - also included Allan Kaprow] | Finland [in cooperation with Posts & Tele, PAND International, Joensuu Song Festival, City of Joensuu] | 1990 |
| On Site #4 - Not Seen and/or Less Seen of... | Site, Inc., New York | 1973 |
| The Arties - Franklin Furnace's Tenth Anniversary Celebration | Franklin Furnace, New York | 1986 |
| The Museum of Drawers | Kunsthaus Zurich | 1978 |
| SELECTED CATALOGUES INCLUDING KAPROW | ||
| Arte de Sistemas | Museo De Arte Moderno / CAYC - Centro de Arte y Communicacion, Buenos Aires | 1971 |
| Blam! The Explosion of Pop, Minimalism and Performance 1958-1964 | Whitney Museum of American Art | 1984 |
| Critical Mass: Happenings, Fluxus, Performance, Intermedia and Rutgers University 1958-1972 | Mason Gross Art Galleries, Rutgers University / Mead Art Gallery, Amherst | 2003 |
| Documenta 6 [curator: Manfred Schneckenburger] | Kassel, Germany | 1977 |
| Documenta 8 [curator: Manfred Schneckenburger] Performance | Kassel | 1987 |
| Do It | Independent Curators, Inc., New York | 1997 |
| Earth, Air, Fire, Water: Elements of Art | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | 1971 |
| In the Spirit of Fluxus | Walker Art Center | 1993 |
| La Biennale di Venezia 1976 - From Nature to Art, from Art to Nature - Ambient Art | Venice | 1976 |
| la Biennale di Venezia 44: Ubi Fluxus | Venice | 1990 |
| la Biennale di Venezia 45: Opera Italiana - Transiti - Museo Elettronico | Venice, various locations | 1993 |
| Off Limits: Rutgers University and the Avant-Garde, 1957-1963 | The Newark Museum | 1999 |
| Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object 1949-1979 | L.A. Museum of Contemporary Art | 1998 |
| Software: Information Technology: Its New Meaning for Art | The Jewish Museum, New York | 1970 |
| The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | 2008 |
| Theater of the Object: Reconstructions, Re-creations, Reconsiderations 1958 | The Alternative Museum, New York | 1988 |
| Video Art | Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennyslvania, Philadelphia | 1975 |
| Word as Image: American Art 1960-1990 | Milwaukee Art Museum | 1990 |
| Word Works | Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, California |
1974 |
| Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera 1962-1972 | Walker Art Center | 2001 |
| SELECTED BOOKS INCLUDING KAPROW | ||
| Art and Artifact: The Museum as Medium | Thames & Hudson | 2001 |
| Art and Life | Praeger | 1971 |
| Art in the Land: A Critical Anthology of Environmental Art | E. P. Dutton | 1983 |
| Artpark: The Program in Visual Arts [documentation of 1974-6 projects] | Artpark, New York | 1976 |
| Assemblage, Environments & Happenings | Abrams | 1966 |
| But is it Art? The Spirit of Art as Activism | Bay Press | 1995 |
| Conceptual Art | Phaidon | 1998 |
| Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity | MIT Press | 2003 |
| Conceptuallism in Latin American Art: Didactics of Liberation | University of Texas Press | 2007 |
| From Margin to Center: The Spaces of Installation Art | MIT Press | 1999 |
| Get the Message? A Decade of Art for Social Change [Lucy Lippard] | E.P. Dutton | 1984 |
| Great Western Salt Works: essays on the meaning of Post-Formalist art | George Braziller | 1974 |
| Happenings | Dutton | 1965 |
| Happenings and Other Acts | Routledge | 1995 |
| Jack Goldstein and the CalArts Mafia | Minneola Press | 2003 |
| Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art | Bay Press | 1995 |
| Minimal Art: A Critical Survey | E.P. Dutton & Co. | 1968 |
| New Art in the 60s and 70s: Redefining Reality | Thames and Hudson | 2001 |
| Out of the Box: The Reinvention of Art, 1965-1975 | School of Visual Arts | 2000 |
| Performance Anthology: Source Book of California Performance Art | Last Gasp Press / Contemporary Arts Press | 1989 |
| Performance Artists Talking in the Eighties | University of California Press, Berkely | 2000 |
| Performance: Live Art 1909 to the Present | Harry N. Abrams | 1979 |
| Performance: Live Art Since 1960 | Harry N. Abrams | 1998 |
| Six Years: The dematerialization of the art object.... | Praeger | 1973 |
| Teaching and Learning as Performing Arts | Kasper Konig / Verlag Gebr. Koenig | 1970 |
| The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art | MIT Press | 2003 |
| The Lure of the Local: senses of place in a multicentered society | The New Press, New York | 1997 |
| Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings | University of California Press | 1996 |
| The Theatre of Mixed Means | The Dial Press, New York | 1968 |
| Words To Be Looked At: Language in 1960s Art | MIT Press | 2007 |
| OTHER PUBLICATIONS | ||
| Art Action 1958 - 1998 | Inter Art Actuel et Le Lieu, Centre en Art Actuel, Quebec | 2001 |
| PERIODICALS INCLUDING KAPROW | ||
| Art in America: [The Audience is His Medium!] | # 2 (March-April) | 1963 |
| Art in America [The Dimensions of the Miniarts by Douglas Davis] | November-December | 1967 |
| Art in America [The Politicalization of the Avant-Garde] | November-December | 1971 |
| Art in America [The Expanded Readymade (Sydney Biennale)] | September |
1990 |
| Artforum [Jack Burnham: Systems Esthetics] | September | 1968 |
| Art in America [TV - The Next Medium] | September-October | 1969 |
| Art in America [Art as Act] | March-April | 1970 |
| Art in America [The Avant Garde Festival: And Now, Shea Stadium] | November-December | 1974 |
| Flash Art [Turin in the 1970s] | October | 1991 |
| On Site 5/6 - On Energy | SITE, Inc., New York | 1974 |
| Parkett # 62 [Household: Allan Kaprow's Economy] | Parkett | 2001 |
| The Act-Performance Art, Vol.1, #1 | Performance Project | 1986 |
| Third Text # 24 | Third Text, Autumn | 1993 |
| Vision #3 - New York City | Crown Point Press | 1976 |
| EXHIBITION REVIEWS | ||
| Allan Kaprow at John Gibson Gallery | Artforum , December | 1969 |