Radical Prototypes: Allan Kaprow and the Invention of Happenings

by Judith F. Rodenbeck

Book Overview

An examination of an experiential and experimental art form that, despite its evanescence, has shaped participatory art into the present.

"Happenings" have pop connotations that conjure up 1960s youth culture and hippies in public, joyful rebellion. Scholars, meanwhile, locate happenings in a genealogy of avant-garde performance that descends from futurism, surrealism, and Dada through the action painting of the 1950s. In Radical Prototypes,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262526123
• ISBN13: 9780262526128
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 295 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher