Performer: Allan Kaprow
Genre: Non Music
Album: How To Make A Happening
Released: 1966
Style: Speech
MP3 version ZIP size: 1703 mb
FLAC version RAR size: 1774 mb
WMA version ZIP size: 1374 mb
Rating: 4.8
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Tracklist

A	How To Make A Happening
B	How To Make A Happening

Companies, etc.

• Designed At – Mass Art Inc.

Credits

• Artwork [Title Silkscreen Printed By] – Alison Knowles
• Photography By – Sol Goldberg

Notes

Silkscreened cover with photo from Allan Kaprow's happening "Household", Cornell University, 1964.

Special edition of this record, sealed in a heavy vinyl jacket with the title silkscreened in red.

In 1957 Alan 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 white 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".
(Excerpt from the liner notes)

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
M-132	Allan Kaprow	How To Make A Happening ‎(LP)	Mass Art Inc.	M-132	US	1966
none	Allan Kaprow	How To Make A Happening ‎(CD, Album, Ltd, RE)	Primary Information	none	US	2008