Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life

"Known as the father of Happenings and Performance Art, Allan Kaprow is also a sagacious teacher, a historian, a storyteller, and, as demonstrated in this volume, one of the most perceptive and articulate cultural critics of this era. Art for Kaprow is not mere formal structure but a participatory and interactive experience of life."—Peter Selz, Coeditor of Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings (California, 1996) and author of Nathan Oliveria (California, 2002)

"Allan Kaprow's essays sound fresh and new…. Artists of the world, read this--you have nothing to lose but your equilibrium."—Lucy R. Lippard, author of Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America