INVENTORY OF THE ALLAN KAPROW PAPERS, 1940-1997
Finding aid prepared by Annette Leddy.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Allan Kaprow papers
Date (inclusive): 1940-1997
Number: 980063
Creator/Collector:
Kaprow, Allan
Physical Description:
63.5 linear feet
(119 boxes, 16 flat file folders, 2 rolls)
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, California, 90049-1688
(310) 440-7390
Abstract: The Allan Kaprow Papers offer comprehensive documentation of an artistic career that spanned the latter half of the 20th century
and continues into the 21st. Arranged chronologically so as to demonstrate the artist's passage from student of art and art
history to practicing artist, art theorist and art educator, the collection contains drawings, term papers and notebooks from
Kaprow's student days, followed by ca. 250 Project Files, comprising the complete extant documentation of Kaprow's Environments,
Happenings, and Activities.
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Biographical / Historical Note
Allan Kaprow was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on August 23, 1927, and spent his childhood in Tuscon, Arizona. His family
then moved to New York, where Kaprow attended the High School of Music and Art, graduating in 1945. He received his B.A. degree
from New York University, where he majored in philosophy and art history and was a principle cartoonist for the college magazine.
He then earned a Master's Degree in art history at Columbia University where he studied with Meyer Schapiro, to whom he dedicated
his Thesis on Piet Mondrian in 1951. He also studied painting with Hans Hofmann (1947-1948) at Hofmann's school, and musical
composition with John Cage at the New School for Social Research (1957-1958).
In the mid-1950s Kaprow began exhibiting his work, expressionist or fauvist-style paintings, at the Hansa Gallery, an East
Village cooperative that he co-founded with a group of other young artists including Jan Müller, Felix Pasilis, and Jean Follett.
By 1958, Kaprow's paintings had evolved into the interactive installations that he called Environments, at that time a novel
concept in the American art scene. From this Kaprow moved to the notion of creating an event determined, like Cage's music,
by a score that allowed for chance developments. The elements of these event pieces were always to be everyday objects (tires,
cheap mirrors, aluminum foil, plastic strips), people (participants), and often sound (bits of household or workworld dialogue,
breathing, industrial noise). He also generally dispensed with the gallery space and utilized urban spaces or sites in nature.
Kaprow had a long career as a professor of art and art history. He taught at Rutgers University (1953-1961), SUNY Stony Brook
(1961-1968), California Institute of the Arts (1969-1974) and UC San Diego (1974-1993), and has been a visiting lecturer at
numerous museums and universities. He also co-directed an educational program for the Berkeley public schools in 1969, Project
Other Ways, and has authored several proposals regarding art education reform in the United States.
Beginning with his prescient article "The Legacy of Jackson Pollock," published in
Art News in 1958, Kaprow has consistently produced critical and theoretical pieces that explain his kind of art as the most adequate
aesthetic response to contemporary life.
Assemblage, Environments, and Happenings (1966) presented the work of like-minded artists through both photographs and critical essays, and is a standard text in
the field of performance art. Kaprow's
Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life (1993), a collection of pieces written over four decades, has made his theories about the practice of art in the present
day available to a new generation of artists and critics. In addition, major catalogs of Kaprow's work have been published
in connection with retrospectives in the U.S. and Europe, most notably
7 Environments (1992).
The critical and public acceptance of Kaprow's work may be attributed as much to the polemics of Kaprow's writings and lectures
as to his anticipation that American art would move away from the hermetic aesthetic of Abstract Expressionism and return,
in certain respects, to the anti-subjective populism of Futurism, Constructivism and Dada. For four decades Kaprow has continued
to work within the form of the Environment, Happening, or Activity, and has reinvented certain early works several times,
making a total of nearly 250 pieces. His influence on other artists, especially the performance and installation artists of
the 1970s and 1980s, has been significant. More than forty years after the first Happening, his work is the subject of continual
critical discussion. While the form Kaprow largely invented has lost its shock-value, the quality of his ephemeral pieces
continues to resonate through their scores and other surviving documentation.
Administrative Information
Access
Open for use by qualified researchers, except un-reformatted audiotapes, videotapes and films.
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Allan Kaprow Papers, 1940-1997, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accession no. 980063.
Acquisition Information
Collection acquired from Allan Kaprow in 1998.
Processing History
435 monographs and serials were transferred to the library 1999 Apr 20.
Peter Kirby reformatted audio cassettes, Super 8 films, video tapes and 1/4 inch audio tapes in 2003. The remainder of audio
visual materials were reformatted between 2004 and 2008 by the Getty Research Library.
Alternate Form Available
Includes reformatted audio visual materials.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Allan Kaprow Papers offer comprehensive documentation of an artistic career that spanned the latter half of the 20th century
and continues into the 21st. Arranged chronologically so as to demonstrate the artist's passage from student of art and art
history to practicing artist, art theorist and art educator, the collection contains drawings, term papers and notebooks from
Kaprow's student days, followed by ca. 250 Project Files, comprising the complete extant documentation of Kaprow's Environments,
Happenings, and Activities. These files form the core of the collection and demonstrate the evolution of Kaprow's Happening
from a relatively scripted, grand, social event (Chicken; Household) to an austere, inter-subjective experience (Time Pieces;
Rates of Exchange). They contain the artist's notes and drafts of the casually poetic scores, along with correspondence and
photo-documentation by Peter Moore, Robert McElroy, and Julian Wasser, among other photographers. A variety of Printed Matter,
including Scrapbooks, Clippings and Posters, document the work's presentation and reception in the art world. There are also
Film, Video and Audio recordings of many Happenings and Activities. Kaprow's writings, arranged chronologically by year, represent
the artist's consistent production of articles, essays, books, and lectures about the practice of contemporary art and issues
in art education. Teaching files contain correspondence with university officials and colleagues; together with Professional
Correspondence they portray the financial difficulties attendant on an unconventional art career that has taken place outside
the usual venues and generated few objects that could be sold for profit. Artists' Files comprise texts, objects or photographs
sent to Kaprow, and evoke the international community of avant-garde artists to which Kaprow belongs.
Arrangement note
The papers are organized in 10 series:
Series I. Education, 1940-1996
Series II. Hansa Gallery, 1953-1958
Series III. Project Files, 1946-1999
Series IV. Printed Matter, 1952-1997
Series V. Writings, 1953-1997
Series VI. Teaching Files, 1952-1993
Series VII. Professional Correspondence, 1946-1998
Series VIII. Artists' Files, 1955-1996
Series IX. Personal, 1946-1996
Series X. Films and Video and Audio Tapes, 1957-1995
Oversize from Series I-X, 1949-1970
Indexing Terms
Subjects - Topics
Art--Study and teaching
Arts, Modern-20th century
Conceptual Art
Happening (Art)
Performance art
Theater
Genres and Forms of Material
Audiotapes
Motion pictures (visual works)
Photographic prints
Photographs, Original
Posters
Scores
Scrapbooks
Videotapes
Contributors
Baecker, Inge
Conz, Francesco, 1935
Donguy, Jacques
Fluxus (Group of Artists)
Hansa Gallery (New York, N.Y.).
Higgins, Dick, 1938-1998
Hofmann, Hans, 1880-1966
Kantor, Tadeusz, 1915-1990
Knízák, Milan
McElroy, Robert R.
Mondrian, Piet, 1872-1944
Moore, Peter, 1932-1993
Oldenburg, Claes, 1929-
Pollock, Jackson, 1912-1956
Samaras, , Lucas, 1936-
Schapiro, Meyer, 1904-
Schimmel, Paul
Vostell, Wolf, 1932-1998
Container List
Series I.
Education,
1940-1996
Physical Description:
3 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
Education files include Oversize, and offer evidence of an early inclination toward art, such as an elementary school award
for handicrafts and a Christmas card Kaprow designed for his high school. Otherwise, the series documents the intellectual
aspect of Kaprow's development as an artist. It consists of notebooks for undergraduate and graduate courses in Art History
and Philosophy, along with Kaprow's student essays, including a paper on Jackson Pollock that Kaprow wrote for a course with
Meyer Schapiro, whose comments are on the paper. Also included are musical scores Kaprow created for courses with John Cage
at the New School for Social Research.
Box 1, Folder 1
Brandes School, Arizona,
1940-1941
Scope and Content Note
Brochure of Kaprow's elementary school and award he won for handicrafts.
Box 1, Folder 2
High School of Music & Art, New York,
1941-1945
Scope and Content Note
Christmas card designed by Kaprow for the school, Principal's letter of congratulations about the card, graduation invitations
and program, diploma, and diploma from Junior High in Tucson.
Box 1, Folder 3
New York University,
1946-1949
Scope and Content Note
Kaprow essay on Hart Crane, program for student plays, exams for courses on Aesthetics and Ethics, notebook and study cards
for Philosophy course, letter of conferment of degree.
Box 1, Folder 4
New York University,
1946-1949
Scope and Content Note
Philosophy notebook cover.
Box 1, Folder 5
Columbia University,
1950-1952
Scope and Content Note
One course notebook on Greek art and one on Romanesque painting, with loose notes on assorted topics.
Box 1, Folder 6
Columbia University,
1950-1952
Scope and Content Note
One course notebook on Modern Art and one on Early Christian painting, with loose notes on assorted topics.
Box 1, Folder 7
Columbia University,
1950-1952
Scope and Content Note
One course notebook on Baroque painting in Italy and one on Modern Art, with loose notes on assorted topics.
Box 2
Education, ,
1950-1958 1996
Box 2, Folder 1
Columbia University,
1950-1952
Scope and Content Note
One course notebook on Medieval Art and one on Greek art.
Box 2, Folder 2
Columbia University,
1950
Scope and Content Note
Essay on Jackson Pollock for course taught by Meyer Schapiro, with Schapiro's comments.
Box 2, Folder 3
Columbia University,
1950
Scope and Content Note
Essay on The South Portal Tympanum of St. Sernin at Toulouse, for course on Romanesque sculpture taught by Meyer Schapiro,
with Schapiro's comments.
Box 2, Folder 4
Columbia University,
1950-1952
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten draft of essay on Humanism and Raphael's "Disputa" and "Parnassus."
Box 2, Folder 5
Columbia University,
1950-1952
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten draft of essay on Titian.
Box 2, Folder 6
Columbia University,
1950-1952
Scope and Content Note
Essay on Frans Hals.
Box 2, Folder 7
Columbia University,
1950-1952
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten draft of essay on Piero della Francesca and Fernand Leger.
Box 2, Folder 8
Columbia University,
1950-1952
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten draft of review of Modigliani show at MOMA.
Box 2, Folder 9
Columbia University,
1951
Scope and Content Note
Master's thesis on Piet Mondrian, with dedication to Meyer Schapiro.
Box 2, Folder 10
Columbia University,
1951
Scope and Content Note
A second copy of above M.A. thesis, with handwritten corrections on tablet.
Box 2, Folder 11
Columbia University,
1952
Scope and Content Note
Master's Degree Diploma.
Box 2, Folder 12
Goya Exhibition Program,
1950
Scope and Content Note
With Kaprow's notes written in margins.
Box 2, Folder 13
Book List,
1956
Scope and Content Note
A list of books about art and artists.
Box 2, Folder 14
New School for Social Research,
1957
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten musical score ("Music").
Box 2, Folder 15
New School for Social Research,
1957-1958
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten musical score ("Roulette").
Box 2, Folder 16
New School for Social Research,
1957-1958
Scope and Content Note
Musical score ("Saw"), 2 copies.
Box 2, Folder 17
Invitations,
1994-1996
Scope and Content Note
Symposium and Memorial in honor of Meyer Schapiro.
Series II.
Hansa Gallery,
1953-1958
Physical Description:
0.25 linear feet
Scope and Content Note
This Series consists of posters and announcements for exhibitions at the Hansa Gallery, where Kaprow's paintings and early
environments were first exhibited.
Box 3, Folder 1
Announcements,
1953
Scope and Content Note
Jan Müller mimeos.
Box 3, Folder 2
Announcements,
1954-1958
Scope and Content Note
For Kaprow's paintings and drawings exhibitions.
Box 3, Folder 3
Posters,
195?
Scope and Content Note
for Kaprow solo and group exhibitions.
Series III.
Project Files,
1946-1999
Physical Description:
14.0 linear feet
Scope and Content Note
Project Files form the core of the collection. Arranged chronologically by year and, where possible, by month, they begin
with .5 linear feet of slides and photographs of Kaprow's early paintings, and drafts of early scores. The remaining Project
Files document the 231 Environments, Happenings, or Activities in the collection, including some that were never realized.
Typically, a file contains a score, often both handwritten and revised typewritten versions; correspondence with the sponsoring
institution regarding funding, site specifications, and travel arrangements; photographs of the work; and possibly clippings
or press releases. Files for Happenings created between 1967 and 1969 often contain a poster that served as both publicity
for a Happening and as its score (see also Series IV.D. Posters). Files for Activities created between 1970 and 1979 often
contain Activity Booklets, that is, booklets made to look like training manuals that document a piece with photographs and
text and may also serve as scores for future reinventions. Pieces Kaprow reinvented more than once in his career (such as
"Yard" or "Words") are listed in the chronological sequence each time they were reinvented, and the entry for the original
piece lists all subsequent reinventions for which there is documentation in the collection. (For a more complete list of Kaprow's
work, see his Curriculum Vita in the Research file for 980063). The entry for each project begins with the name of the sponsoring
institution or, where that is not known, the location. Please note that the dates of projects have been authenticated by reference
to announcements or clippings or by discussions with Allan Kaprow and that
dates on the versos of photographs are not authoritative. Moreover, research related to the GRI book on Kaprow has led to
date reassignments that are noted in brackets next to the title of the Project file, but the files have not been moved. Also
note that slides, negatives, minox, and color prints, while listed under the Project file, are in cold storage boxes 112-115.
Box 4, Folder 1
Varieties,
1946-1947
Scope and Content Note
Ten complete issues from the New York University magazine for which Kaprow was a principle cartoonist. Includes covers and
internal cartoons by Kaprow.
Box 4, Folder 2
Varieties,
1946-1947
Scope and Content Note
15 individual cartoons Kaprow drew for the N.Y. University magazine, with 1 copy of
Varieties Cartoon Cavalcade and 1 Kaprow drawing.
Box 4, Folder 3
Red forest,
1953
Scope and Content Note
Black and white photographs of the Kaprow painting. No Photo credit.
Box 4, Folder 4
Early works, ca.
1954-1957
Scope and Content Note
Slides, negatives, and transparencies of early paintings, sculpture, and collages, including "Red Dancers," and "Woman Out
of Fire," with an incomplete list in Kaprow's handwriting. No Photo credit.
Box 4, Folder 5A
Early works, ca.
1952-1953
Box 4, Folder 6
Caged pheasant #1 and #2,
1956
Scope and Content Note
Black and white photographs and color transparencies and slides of the piece. Photo credits: Mary Kristen.
Box 4, Folder 7
Tape score,
1957
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten with photocopy.
Box 4, Folder 8
Tape Score,
1957
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten, with diagram of theater and a drawing.
Box 4, Folder 9
Tape score,
1957-1958
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten.
Box 4, Folder 10
Composition,
1957-1958
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten score involving music, dancers, and objects.
Box 4, Folder 11
Score,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
1 handwritten page. May not be Kaprow's work.
Box 4, Folder 12
Rearrangeable panels,
1957-1995
Scope and Content Note
Black and white photographs of early version; color transparencies of later version, with Kaprow statement from 1990. Photo
credit: John Millaire; Rudolph Burckhardt; Photodyne.
Box 4, Folder 13
Throat and cough piece,
1957-1958
Scope and Content Note
1 page handwritten score.
Box 4, Folder 14
Untitled environment,
Mar 1958
Scope and Content Note
First environment at the Hansa Gallery. Black and white photographs, color slides, one drawing. Photo credit: Jon Henry; Francesco
Cantarella.
Box 4, Folder 15
Untitled environment,
Dec 1958
Scope and Content Note
Second environment at Hansa for solo show. Writings, correspondence, announcements, black and white photographs. Photo credit:
Francesco Cantarella. See also 1980 for later reinvention at Berlin Academy for show entitled "Eyes and Ears."
Box 5, Folder 1
A pastorale,
1958
Scope and Content Note
George Segal's farm, North Brunswick, N.J. Handwritten score with diagrams. Part of score was incorporated into 18 Happenings.
Box 5, Folder 2
Communication,
Apr 1958
Scope and Content Note
Douglass College, N.J. Handwritten score with diagrams and retrospective statement by Kaprow discussing this first public
Happening.
Box 5, Folder 3
Mountain,
Dec 1959
Scope and Content Note
Color snapshots and slides of this object shown at Reuben Gallery. No Photo credit.
Box 5, Folder 4
Notes for electronic sound pieces,
late 1950s
Box 5, Folder 5
Something to take place: a happening,
1959
Scope and Content Note
Published in
Anthologist, v. 30, no. 4 (CJPA87-S944). Unrevised score of "18 Happenings in 6 Parts."
Box 5, Folder 6
18 happenings in 6 parts,
1959
Scope and Content Note
Reuben Gallery, NYC. Handwritten notes, scores, schemas and drawings.
Box 5, Folder 6
18 happenings in 6 parts,
1959
Scope and Content Note
Reuben Gallery, NYC. Handwritten notes, scores, schemas and drawings.
Box 5, Folder 6A
18 happenings in 6 parts,
1959
Scope and Content Note
Audience instructions.
Box 5, Folder 7
18 happenings in 6 parts,
1959
Scope and Content Note
Texts and speeches not filed under "Rooms."
Box 5, Folder 8
18 happenings in 6 parts,
1959
Scope and Content Note
Room 1, Sets 1-5.
Box 5, Folder 9
18 happenings in 6 parts,
1959
Scope and Content Note
Room 2, Sets 1-5.
Box 5, Folder 9
18 happenings in 6 parts,
1959
Scope and Content Note
Room 2, Sets 1-5.
Box 5, Folder 9A
18 happenings in 6 parts,
1959
Scope and Content Note
Room 3, Sets 1-6.
Box 5, Folder 10
18 happenings in 6 parts,
1959
Scope and Content Note
Slides of artwork used in piece. No photo credit.
Box 5, Folder 11
18 happenings in 6 parts,
1959
Scope and Content Note
Photographs not filed under Rooms. Photo credit: Scott Hyde
Box 5, Folder 12
18 happenings in 6 parts,
1959
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence (Organizational and post-performance response)
Box 5, Folder 12A
18 happenings in 6 parts,
1959
Scope and Content Note
Columbia University monitoring templates (where separated from materials)
Box 5, Folder 13
Laughs and Balloons, A Happening in One Night,
1959
Scope and Content Note
Reuben Gallery. Handwritten score.
Box 6, Folder 1
The big laugh,
Jan 1960
Scope and Content Note
Reuben Gallery. Score, 4 black and white photographs. No Photo credit.
Box 6, Folder 2
Coca cola Shirley Cannonball,
Feb 1960
Scope and Content Note
Judson Gallery. Score, black and white photographs, negatives. No Photo credit.
Box 6, Folder 3
Garage Environment,
Sept 1960
Scope and Content Note
In Kaprow's studio, Old Bridge, N.J. Black and white photographs and slides. No Photo credit.
Box 6, Folder 4
Apple Shrine,
Nov 1960
Scope and Content Note
Judson Gallery, NYC. Black and white photographs and transparencies of 1960 version, with letter to the
Village Voice regarding lack of critical response to the piece. Photo credit: Robert McElroy. See Box 33 for later reinvention in "7 Environments,"
Milan, Fondazione Mudima, 1991.
Box 6, Folder 5
Stockroom,
1960
Scope and Content Note
Stockholm. Score and black and white photographs. Photo credit: Vera Spoerri. See also "7 Environments," 1992, Box 33, for
later reinvention.
Box 6, Folder 6
A Spring Happening,
Mar 1961
Scope and Content Note
Reuben Gallery. Score, clipping of review, black and white and color photos and slides. Photo credit: Robert McElroy.
Box 6, Folder 7
Yard,
May 1961
Scope and Content Note
Martha Jackson Gallery and David Anderson Gallery. Press release, Kaprow's statement, black and white and color photographs
and transparencies. Photo credit: Robert McElroy; K. Heyman. For later versions of "Yard," see 1967 (Pasadena Art Musuem),
1970 (Köln), 1981 (Dusseldorf), 1982 (Staatliche Museen, Berlin), 1984 (Whitney Museum, NY), 1986 (Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund),
1991 (Fondazione Mudima, Milan), 1998 (MOCA LA).
Box 6, Folder 8
Night,
May 1961
Scope and Content Note
Ann Arbor, as part of festival Open House 61. Score, letters, drawings, black and white photos. No Photo credit.
Box 6, Folder 9
Chapel,
1961
Scope and Content Note
A version of "Stockroom" (1960), this title was given in proposal to Bill Seitz of MOMA and was not realized. Proposal and
letter to Seitz.
Box 7, Folder 1
Service for the Dead, Part I,
Mar 1962
Scope and Content Note
Maidman Playhouse, NYC. Sponsored by NY Poet's Theatre. Handwritten and typewritten score. Published version of score (clipping
from
Art International, 1963 Jan 25), Black and white photographs, plus 4 glass slides. Photo credit: Robert McElroy.
Box 7, Folder 2
Mirrors: A Happening,
May 1962
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten and typewritten score. Not performed; Kaprow developed it into a limited edition etching.
Box 7, Folder 3
Service for the Dead, Part II,
Aug 1962
Scope and Content Note
Bridgehampton, NY, as part of Ergo Suits Festival. Handwritten and typewritten score. Black and white photographs, negatives,
and glass slides. No Photo credit.
Box 7, Folder 4
Sweeping,
Aug 1962
Scope and Content Note
Woodstock, NY, as part of Ergo Suits Festival. Handwritten and typewritten score. Black and white photographs and 1 glass
slide. Photo credit: Peter Moore; Robert McElroy.
Box 7, Folder 5
Words,
Sept 1962
Scope and Content Note
Smolin Gallery, NYC. Handwritten and typewritten score, press release, brochure, clipping. black and white photographs, 1
glass slide. Photo credit: Robert McElroy. See also 1984 reinvention of "Words" for Whitney show (Blam!), 1984 and 1992 reinvention
for Galerie Donguy exhibition (4 Environments).
Box 7, Folder 6
Courtyard,
Nov 1962
Scope and Content Note
Smolin Gallery, NYC. Mills Hotel, NYC. Score, press release, announcement, review, black and white photographs, plus 6 Kodachromes.
Photo credit: Lawrence Shustak, Peter Moore. See also Box 15.
Box 7, Folder 7
Courtyard,
Nov 1962
Scope and Content Note
More black and white photographs of the event, with 7 glass slides. Photo credit: Peter Moore. See also Box 15, for larger
photographs of the event.
Box 7, Folder 8
Mushroom,
Nov 1962
Scope and Content Note
Center Arts Council (Walker) sponsored Happening held in mushroom caves in St. Paul. Handwritten and typewritten scores and
reviews.
Box 7, Folder 9
Chicken,
Nov 1962
Scope and Content Note
Philadelphia Arts Council. Performed at YM/YWHA in Philadelphia. Score, correspondence, reviews, poster (duplicate in flat
files), black and white photographs and slides. Photo credit: Edwin Sabol.
Box 7, Folder 10
Fight, Part I, version 1,
1962
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten and typewritten score. Never performed.
Box 7, Folder 11
Fight, Part I, version 2,
1962
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten score. Never performed.
Box 8, Folder 1
Birds,
Feb [1964]
Scope and Content Note
University of Southern Illinois, Carbondale. Handwritten and typewritten score. Black and white photographs. No Photo credit.
Box 8, Folder 2
Push and Pull: A Furniture Comedy for Hans Hofmann,
Apr 1963
Scope and Content Note
Created for "Hans Hofmann and His Students," MOMA, NY. Typewritten score, performance instructions, exhibition list, press
release, 2 clippings, black and white photographs, glass slides. Photo credit: Paul Berg, St. Louis Post Dispatch. For later
reinventions of this environment, see also Pasadena Art Museum, 1967; "7 Environments," 1991; and "Out of Actions," MOCA LA,
1998.
Box 8, Folder 3
Tree,
May 1963
Scope and Content Note
Performed as part of Yam Festival at George Segal's farm. Typewritten version of score, black and white photographs, 5 glass
slides. Photo credit: Peter Moore.
Box 8, Folder 4
Bon Marché,
July 1963
Scope and Content Note
At a Bon Marché department store in Paris, as part of Theatre of Nations Festival. Handwritten and typewritten score. Letter
from Kaprow to Mr. O'Doherty describing the Happening a few weeks after it occurred, and a general explanation of Happenings.
Black and white photographs, negatives, glass slides. Photo credit: Mercedes Guardado Olivenza; Shunk-Kender.
Box 8, Folder 5
Out,
Sept 1963
Scope and Content Note
Edinburgh, at the International Arts Festival. Kaprow's handwritten and typewritten account of event and clipping of published
version. Black and white photographs, one of which shows Eugene Ionesco in attendance. Photo credit: Alan Daiches; The Scotsman
Publications.
Box 8, Folder 6
Sea,
Sept 1963
Scope and Content Note
Prepared for Edinburgh International Writer's Conference, Sept. 1963, but cancelled at insistence of Chairman Kenneth Tynan.
Handwritten and typewritten score with drawings.
Box 8, Folder 7
Eat,
Jan 1964
Scope and Content Note
Ebling Brewery Caves, Bronx, NY, sponsored by Smolin Gallery. Black and white photographs, slides and glass slides. Photo
credit: Peter Moore; Robert McElroy. See also Box 10 for larger photographs of the event and Box 33 for later reinventions
at "7 Environments," Fondazione Mudima and Studio Morra, and "4 Environments," Paris.
Box 9, Folder 1A
Household,
[May] 1964
Scope and Content Note
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Handwritten and typewritten score, also score for first version, entitled "Silver Foil," which
was cancelled due to danger of the site. See Box 50 for photographs and Series X. for Kaprow's film and VHS use copy of Household.
Box 9, Folder 1B
Household,
[May] 1964
Scope and Content Note
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Black and white photographs, 26 glass slides. Photo credit: Sol Goldberg, Ithaca, NY. Photo
credit for location photos of Silver Foil site: Alan Koslin. See Box 50 for photographs and Series X. for Kaprow's film and
VHS use copy of Household.
Box 9, Folder 2
Orange,
Mar 1964
Scope and Content Note
Miami Arts Council, Coral Gables, FL. Handwritten and typewritten scores, diagram, black and white photographs, 2 glass slides.
Photo credit: Terry S. Lindquist.
Box 9, Folder 3
Paper: A Happening,
Mar 1964
Scope and Content Note
UC Berkeley All Student Art Festival. Earlier draft called Tenants. Handwritten and typewritten score, black and white photographs,
4 color slides. Photo credit: Florian Steiner.
Box 9, Folder 4
Originale,
Sept 1964
Scope and Content Note
2nd Annual New York Avant Garde Festival. Typewritten diagrammatic score by Karlheinz Stockhausen. (Kaprow directed this event).
Black and white photographs. Photo credit: Peter Moore. 1 announcement for 1989 screening of Peter Moore film of the 1964
event.
Box 9, Folder 5
Raining,
Jan 1965
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten and typewritten score. Not performed. Score was made into a booklet included in the Guggenheim exhibition entitled
"Eleven from the Reuben Gallery."
Box 9, Folder 6
Soap,
Feb 1965
Scope and Content Note
Florida State University, Sarasota. Cancelled due to "misinterpretation of intent." Handwritten and typewritten score, program,
clippings, letter from pre-event participant. See also ref3712 roll 2 for score (black paint on butcher paper) intended for
use in Happening.
Box 9, Folder 7
Calling,
Aug 1965
Scope and Content Note
New York. Handwritten and typewritten score, black and white photographs, 19 glass slides, 3 slides. Photo credit: Peter Moore.
Box 9, Folder 8
3 Country Happening,
Spring, 1966
Scope and Content Note
Proposal for a happening in 3 countries, with Kaprow (USA), Minujin (Argentina), and Vostell (Germany) in the form of a map/poster
(duplicate of one in Series II, Posters), a letter from Horst Hahn (1969).
Box 9, Folder 9
Self-Service,
June 1966
Scope and Content Note
Harry Abrams, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, and Pasadena Art Museum. Handwritten and typewritten score, schedule
of events to take place throughout the summer (in NYC, Boston and Los Angeles), maps, lists of participants.
Box 9, Folder 10
Self-Service,
June 1966
Scope and Content Note
Black and white photographs of event. Photo credit: Peter Moore.
Box 9, Folder 11
Towers,
July 1966
Scope and Content Note
Central Park, NYC. Handwritten note, telegram, black and white photographs, 14 slides. Photo credit: Elliott Landy.
Box 10, Folder 1
Originale,
1964
Scope and Content Note
Large black and white photograph of event. Photo credit: Hans Namuth. See also Box 9.
Box 10, Folder 2
Eat,
1964
Scope and Content Note
Large black and white photographs of event. Photo credit: Peter Moore. See also Box 8.
Box 11, Folder 1
Gas,
[August] 1966
Scope and Content Note
Dwan Gallery and WCBS TV, Long Island, NY. Schedule of events and locations. Handwritten and typewritten score; addresses
and phone numbers of some participants; letters from WCBS producers of the documentary about the event, to city officials,
business proprietors and others (i.e. Marshall MacLuhan) explaining the event in advance; Dwan Gallery press releases, the
documentary's script; clippings and one ms. describing the event; 1 poster (duplicate in flat files).
Box 11, Folder 2
Gas,
1966
Scope and Content Note
Black and white photographs of the event. Photo credit: Burton Berinsky; Ken Dewey; Peter Moore;
Box 11, Folder 3
Gas,
1966
Scope and Content Note
Black and white photographs of the event. Photo credit: Peter Moore; Burton Berinsky.
Box 11, Folder 4
Gas,
1966
Scope and Content Note
Negatives, slides, and contact sheets (some of which have views of Kaprow's family or other events.) Photo credit: Peter Moore.
Box 11, Folder 5
Gas,
1966
Scope and Content Note
Negatives and contact sheets. Photo credit: Peter Moore.
Box 11, Folder 6
Gas,
1966
Scope and Content Note
Black and white transparencies. No Photo credit.
Box 12, Folder 1
Flick,
Feb 1967
Scope and Content Note
NYC. Anti-war protest event performed (in part) after poetry reading at Loeb. Typewritten score.
Box 12, Folder 2
Sweep-In,
Apr 1967
Scope and Content Note
Lower East Side NYC. Contact prints and negatives, including views of miscellaneous unidentified events. Photo credit: Peter
Moore.
Box 12, Folder 3
Interruption,
May 1967
Scope and Content Note
State University of New York, Stony Brook. Handwritten and typewritten score, clippings recounting the experience, letters
from faculty at Stony Brook complaining about the disruption to their lives.
Box 12, Folder 4
L&M; Gold,
June 1967
Scope and Content Note
Proposal by Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. to employ a Happening consultant to advise them on how to create publicity happenings
for their new product, L&M Golden 100's. Kaprow's ideas for such a campaign written by hand on product press release. 2 black
and white photographs of cigarette boxes. No Photo credit.
Box 12, Folder 5
Moving,
[Nov-Dec] 1967
Scope and Content Note
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Activity booklet, clippings regarding city's war against commercial signs, correspondence
regarding arrangments for the Happening and an exhibition including "Words" that occurred around the same time.
Box 12, Folder 6
Moving,
1967
Scope and Content Note
Black and white photographs. Photo credit: Peter Moore.
Box 12, Folder 7
Moving,
1967
Scope and Content Note
Negatives and black and white and color transparencies. No Photo credit.
Box 12, Folder 8
Watching,
Sept 1967
Scope and Content Note
WCBS-TV. Handwritten and typewritten score, correspondence.
Box 12, Folder 9
Environments,
Oct 1967
Scope and Content Note
Pasadena Art Museum. Included reinventions of "Yard," and "Push and Pull." "Fluids" created for the exhibition, was performed
in various locations throughout the LA area. Handwritten score, letters from the Pasadena Art Museum, color snapshots of a
backyard performance which was the trial run for "Fluids," black and white photographs of the other pieces. Photo credit:
Julien Wasser.
Box 12, Folder 10
Fluids,
Oct 1967
Scope and Content Note
Black and white photographs. Photo credit: Julian Wasser.
Box 13, Folder 1
Fluids,
Oct 1967
Scope and Content Note
Black and white photographs. Photo credit: Bruce Breland.
Box 13, Folder 2
Fluids,
Oct 1967
Scope and Content Note
Black and white photographs. Photo credit: Bruce Breland.
Box 13, Folder 3
Fluids,
Oct 1967
Scope and Content Note
Slides and transparencies. Photo credit: Bruce Breland.
Box 13, Folder 4
Record I,
Mar 1968
Scope and Content Note
University of Texas, Austin. Handwritten score, poster (printed score), letters from UT staff, contract. Not performed.
Box 13, Folder 5
Arrivals,
Apr 1968
Scope and Content Note
Nassau Community College, Hempstead, NY. Poster (printed score).
Box 13, Folder 6
Overtime,
May 1968
Scope and Content Note
Created for SUNY New Paltz (cancelled) and then adapted for UC San Diego. Handwritten score, poster (printed score) done for
New Paltz, correspondence with UCSD and SUNY staff, black and white photographs. No Photo credit.
Box 13, Folder 7
Record II,
Apr 1968
Scope and Content Note
University of Texas. Handwritten score, poster (printed score), activity booklet, letters from UT staff, black and white photographs,
photocopies of photographs. Photo Credit: Howard Smagula.
Box 13, Folder 8
Population,
May 1968
Scope and Content Note
Colby College, New Hampshire. Typewritten score, poster (printed score), correspondence with college staff, correspondence
with George Braziller regarding possible book, slides, transparencies, 1 black and white photograph. Photo credit: Louis Thompson?
Box 13, Folder 9
Message Units I,
May 1968
Scope and Content Note
Typewritten score, in a letter to E.A.T. president Francis Mason, Jr.
Box 13, Folder 10
Hello,
Nov 1968
Scope and Content Note
WGBH-TV, Boston for program "The Medium is the Medium," broadcast April 1969. Announcement, contact sheet, issue of
Art Rite, no. 7, Autumn, 1974, containing article by Kaprow explaining Hello's plan and execution.
Box 13, Folder 11
Noise,
1968
Scope and Content Note
For the 6th annual New York Avant Garde festival (on a ferry boat). Handwritten score.
Box 14, Folder 1
Transfer,
[Feb] 1968
Scope and Content Note
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT. Handwritten score, poster (printed score), negatives, transparencies, black and white
photographs. Photo credit: Andy Glantz?
Box 14, Folder 2
Runner,
[Feb] 1968
Scope and Content Note
Washington Univ, St. Louis. Handwritten score and poster (printed score), correspondence with university staff (partly regarding
the concurrent exhibition of Kaprow's work in the university gallery), black and white photographs (of the exhibition), transparencies,
slides. Photo credit: John Millaire; Herb Weitman.
Box 14, Folder 3
Round Trip,
Mar 1968
Scope and Content Note
SUNY, Albany. Handwritten score, poster (printed score), correspondence, black and white photographs. Photo credit: Nick Brady;
Klaus Schnitzer.
Box 14, Folder 4
Sign,
June 1968
Scope and Content Note
Typewritten proposal for E.A.T. project that was not realized, with letter from Kaprow to E.A.T. president Francis Mason.
Box 14, Folder 5
Travelog,
July 1968
Scope and Content Note
8th International Artists' Seminar, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, N.J. Typewritten score, drawings, announcements,
correspondence, black and white photographs. No Photo credit.
Box 14, Folder 6
Travelog,
July 1968
Scope and Content Note
Black and white photographs, slides. No Photo credit.
Box 14, Folder 7
Refills,
Aug 1968
Scope and Content Note
Dwan Gallery. Typewritten score, letter from Kaprow, black and white photographs. Photo credit: Gerald S. Frank.
Box 14, Folder 8
Charity,
Mar 1969
Scope and Content Note
Other Ways, Berkeley, CA. Typewritten score, clippings, black and white photographs. No Photo credit.
Box 15, Folder 1
Courtyard,
1962
Scope and Content Note
8 large black and white photographs. See also Box 7.
Box 15, Folder 2
Transfer,
1968
Scope and Content Note
10 large photos. See also Box 14.
Box 15, Folder 3
Days Off,
1969
Scope and Content Note
MOMA Calendar. See also boxes 17 and 23.
Box 16, Folder 1
Pose,
Mar 1969
Scope and Content Note
Other Ways, Berkeley, CA. Clippings, snapshots, slides. See Folder 3 for score (on poster). No Photo credit.
Box 16, Folder 2
Forecast,
Apr 1969
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten and typewritten score.
Box 16, Folder 3
Fine!,
[Mar] 1969
Scope and Content Note
Other Ways, Berkeley, CA. Handwritten score, typewritten score, photocopies of parking citations, poster (printed score for
this and 6 other happenings sponsored by Other Ways), black and white snapshots (some captioned), negatives. No Photo credit.
Box 16, Folder 4
Shape,
[Mar] 1969
Scope and Content Note
Other Ways, Berkeley, CA. Sardonic description (score), letters, clippings reporting on the event, black and white transparencies
and photographs. No Photo credit.
Box 16, Folder 5
Shape,
Apr 1969
Scope and Content Note
Black and white photographs, slides and negatives. See Folder 4 for score (on poster). Photo credit: Gretchen Garlinghouse,
Diane Gilkerson, Deborah Patten, Ken Graves.
Box 16, Folder 6
Transplant,
[May] 1969
Scope and Content Note
Nevada Southern University. Typewritten score, correspondence, black and white photographs. No Photo credit.
Box 16, Folder 7
Takeoff,
[Apr] 1969
Scope and Content Note
UC San Diego. Typewritten score, black and white snapshots, negatives. Also done at Cal State, Sacramento in May 1969. No
Photo credit.
Box 16, Folder 8
Course,
May 1969
Scope and Content Note
University of Iowa, Iowa City. Handwritten score, typewritten score, poster (printed score), map with directions, correspondence
with students and faculty, issue of
Iowa Alumni Review (June-July 1969) with article about Kaprow, black and white photographs, slides, negatives. Photo credit: Nancy Brush.
Box 16, Folder 9
Giveaway,
May 1969
Scope and Content Note
Other Ways, Berkeley, CA. Handwritten list of locations, black and white snapshots, negatives, slides. See folder 3 for score
(on poster). No Photo credit.
Box 17, Folder 1
Purpose,
May 1969
Scope and Content Note
Other Ways, Berkeley, CA. Black and white snapshots, slides, negatives. See Box 16, folder 3 for score (on poster). No Photo
credit.
Box 17, Folder 2
Dial,
May 1969
Scope and Content Note
San Francisco Art Institute. Handwritten and typewritten score, black and white snapshots. No Photo credit.
Box 17, Folder 3
Homemovies: A Marriage Happening for Catherine and Daniel Schmidt,
July 1969
Scope and Content Note
New Jersey and New York. Handwritten and typewritten score, notes, wedding invitation, poster (score), paste-up of poster.
Box 17, Folder 4
Work,
Sept 1969
Scope and Content Note
Typewritten score, correspondence with the Jewish Museum, NY. Happening cancelled.
Box 17, Folder 5
Days Off: A Calendar of Happenings,
Oct 1969
Scope and Content Note
John Gibson Gallery and MOMA, NY. Correspondence, notes, press release, black and white photographs, announcement stickers.
Photo credit: centro de arte y comunicación (argentina), Charles Gatewood.
Box 17, Folder 6
Days Off,
Oct 1969
Scope and Content Note
Black and white photographs used in the calendar. Photo credit: Colby Junior College, Howard Smagula, Allan Kaprow, Andy Glantz,
John Milaire, Peter Moore, Julian Wasser. See also Boxes 15 and 23.
Box 17, Folder 7
Heavenly Passtime - Year 2000,
Oct 1969
Scope and Content Note
E.A.T. proposal/typewritten score for the Pepsi Cola Pavilion, Japan World Exhibition 70, Osaka. Never performed. Correspondence,
brochure, diagrams.
Box 17, Folder 8
Home Brew,
Nov 1969
Scope and Content Note
KPFK, Los Angeles. Typewritten score with correspondence.
Box 17, Folder 9
Moonsounds,
Dec 1969
Scope and Content Note
Blau wedding. Typewritten score, map to El Mirage Dry Lake, letter to Kaprow from Dick Blau.
Box 17, Folder 10
Solo,
1969
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten score.
Box 18, Folder 1
Graft,
Jan 1970
Scope and Content Note
Kent State University Creative Arts Festival. Handwritten and typewritten scores, correspondence, contract, poster, black
and white photographs. Photo credit: Doug Moore.
Box 18, Folder 2
Good Morning!,
May 1970
Scope and Content Note
San Francisco State. Handwritten score.
Box 18, Folder 3
Level,
Aug 1970
Scope and Content Note
Art Council of the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. Handwritten and typewritten score, letter, slides. No Photo credit.
Box 18, Folder 4
A Supermarket Event,
Aug 1970
Scope and Content Note
Art Council of the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. Handwritten and typewritten reports on the event by members of
Kaprow's Happenings workshop. One clipping folded in origami figure labelled "Bull".
Box 18, Folder 5
Don't,
Sept 1970
Scope and Content Note
Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation "summer change 70" program. Handwritten and typewritten score, letter
describing the event and reactions, brochure documenting the event.
Box 18, Folder 6
Publicity,
Oct 1970
Scope and Content Note
California Institute of the Arts. Handwritten and typewritten score, black and white photographs, pages of an Italian newspaper.
No Photo credit.
Box 18, Folder 7
Sales Pitch,
Oct 1970
Scope and Content Note
Proposal submitted to E.A.T., a variant of "Hello" (1969).
Box 18, Folder 8
Ribbon Cutting,
Nov 1970
Scope and Content Note
For dedication ceremony celebrating opening of UC Berkeley University Art Museum and the Hans Hoffmann wing. Typewritten score
in body of letter to Museum Director.
Box 18, Folder 9
Sawdust,
Nov 1970
Scope and Content Note
Cologne Art Festival. Typewritten score, correspondence with Wolf Vostell, Dick Higgins, and others, clipping, issue of
Kunst Nachrichten (Feb. 1971) covering the festival.
Box 18, Folder 10
Sawdust,
Nov. 1970
Scope and Content Note
Black and white photographs. Photo credit: Werner Krüger, Archiv Sohm, Wolf Vostell, Christian Dalchow, Hartmut Beifuß.
Box 18, Folder 11
Car Spaces (Pasadena Freeway Project),
Nov 1970
Scope and Content Note
California Institute for the Arts. Black and white photographs, minox negatives, memo from
Arts in Society magazine, which published some of the photographs(?)
Box 19, Folder 1
Sweet Wall,
Nov 1970
Scope and Content Note
Galerie René Block, Berlin. Letter from René Block, activity booklet, black and white photographs. Photo credit: Galerie René
Block, Peter Smokler, Kalionzes, Dick Higgins, Bee Ottinger.
Box 19, Folder 2
Sweet Wall,
Nov 1970
Scope and Content Note
Black and white photographs, negatives, slides. No Photo credit.
Box 19, Folder 3
Yard,
[Nov] 1970
Scope and Content Note
Köln. Black and white photographs. Photo credit: Wolf Vostell; Werner Kruger.
Box 19, Folder 4
Tracts,
May 1971
Scope and Content Note
California Institute of the Arts. Poster (printed score), black and white photographs, slides. No Photo credit.
Box 19, Folder 5
Tag,
June 1971
Scope and Content Note
Aspen Design Conference. Typewritten score, press release, Aspen trail map, black and white photographs.
Box 19, Folder 6
Labor Day,
Sept 1971
Scope and Content Note
Centro Apollinaire, Milan. Typewritten score, announcements, correspondence.
Box 19, Folder 7
Print-Out,
Sept 1971
Scope and Content Note
Cultural Affairs Com. of Milan. Typewritten score, poster (printed score), black and white photographs, negatives, slides.
Photo credit: J. Minkoff Genére.
Box 19, Folder 8
City Works,
Sept-Oct 1971
Scope and Content Note
Galerie Baecker, Bochum. Handwritten and typewritten scores, correspondence, receipts, poster.
Box 19, Folder 9
Scales,
Oct 1971
Scope and Content Note
California Institute of the Arts. Typewritten score, clipping, color slides. No Photo credit.
Box 19, Folder 10
Calendar,
Oct 1971
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten and typewritten scores.
Box 19, Folder 11
Unidentified exhibition and event,
1971
Scope and Content Note
Art Systems. Black and white photographs. Photo credit: Scheidler?
Box 20, Folder 1
Message Units, ,
Feb 1972 May 1972
Scope and Content Note
California Institute of the Arts (Feb.) and University of Illinois, Normal (May). Typewritten score.
Box 20, Folder 2
Easy, ,
Feb 1972 May 1972
Scope and Content Note
California Institute of the Arts. Colorado College (May?) Typewritten score, Kaprow's introduction to activity booklet of
the event, printed pages from the booklet with black and white photos on them, slides. Photo credit: Alvin Comiter.
Box 20, Folder 3
Baggage,
April 1972
Scope and Content Note
Rice University. Typewritten score, Kaprow's retrospective description of the event, black and white photographs, slides.
Photo credit: Bob Covington.
Box 20, Folder 4
Meters,
May 1972
Scope and Content Note
California Institute of the Arts. Handwritten score.
Box 20, Folder 5
Burbank,
Sept 1972
Scope and Content Note
California Institute of the Arts. Handwritten and typewritten scores, color slides.
Box 20, Folder 6
Meteorology,
Sept 1972
Scope and Content Note
Galerie Baecker, Bochum. Handwritten and typewritten score. See also Box 22.
Box 20, Folder 7
Idea,
[Sep] 1972
Scope and Content Note
Portland Center for Visual Arts, Portland, Oregon. Typewritten score.
Box 20, Folder 8
Entr'Acte,
Dec 1972
Scope and Content Note
California Institute of the Arts. Handwritten and typewritten score, black and white photographs, slides. No Photo credit.
Box 20, Folder 9
George Brecht Dedication Ceremony,
1972
Scope and Content Note
Cologne. Letter from Wolf Vostell, black and white photographs. Photo credit: Erik Andersch.
Box 20, Folder 10
Copy,
1972
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten and typewritten score.
Box 20, Folder 11
Private Lines,
1972
Scope and Content Note
Video score (handwritten and drawn).
Box 20, Folder 12
Operazione Vesuvio,
Jan 1973
Scope and Content Note
Il Centro, Milan (3 part exhibition on Mt. Vesuvius). Clippings and press releases describing the exhibition and Kaprow's
event.
Box 20, Folder 13
Loss,
Jan 1973
Scope and Content Note
New York City. Handwritten and typewritten score, Kaprow ms. describing and explaining the activity, activity booklet, correspondence,
black and white photographs, slides, negatives. Photo credit: Peter Moore.
Box 20, Folder 14
Highs,
Feb 1973
Scope and Content Note
University of Kansas Museum of Art. Handwritten and typewritten score. Black and white photographs, slides, Minox. No Photo
credit.
Box 20, Folder 15
Dial,
Feb 1973
Scope and Content Note
Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington. Handwritten and typewritten score, drawings, black and white photographs.
Photo credit: David D. Johnson
Box 20, Folder 16
Anniversary,
[May] 1973
Scope and Content Note
Sacramento, CA. For Jane and John Fitzgibbon. Handwritten score.
Box 20, Folder 17
Basic Thermal Units,
Mar 1973
Scope and Content Note
For three German museums. Handwritten and typewritten scores, correspondence, clippings (in German). See also Box 21.
Box 20, Folder 18
Basic Thermal Units,
Mar 1973
Scope and Content Note
Black and white photographs and Minox. Photo credit: Timm Rautert.
Box 21, Folder 1
Baggage,
Apr 1972
Scope and Content Note
Large printed pages of booklet about the event. See also Box 20.
Box 21, Folder 2
Basic Thermal Units,
Mar 1973
Scope and Content Note
Large (12" x 15") black and white photographs. See also Box 20.
Box 22
Meteorology,
Sept 1972
Scope and Content Note
Large (15" x 19") black and white photographs. Photo credit: Lothar Wolleh. See also box 20.
Box 23, Folder 1
Days Off,
Oct 1969
Scope and Content Note
Printed pages (12" x 19") for booklet about event. See also Boxes 15 and 17.
Box 23, Folder 2
Time Pieces,
1973
Scope and Content Note
Printed pages (12" x 19") for booklet about event. See also Box 24.
Box 23, Folder 3
Moving,
1967
Scope and Content Note
Poster (15" x 19") for event mounted on board. See also Box 12.
Box 23, Folder 4
Rates of Exchange,
1975
Scope and Content Note
Large activity booklet. See also Box 26.
Box 24, Folder 1
Clockwork,
May 1973
Scope and Content Note
California Institute of the Arts. Handwritten and typewritten score.
Box 24, Folder 2
Wink,
May 1973
Scope and Content Note
California Institute of the Arts. Handwritten score.
Box 24, Folder 3
Time Pieces,
Sept 1973
Scope and Content Note
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein for its festival "Aktionen Der Avantgarde," Berlin. Handwritten and typewritten score, activity
booklet, booklet in various stages of revision, correspondence.
Box 24, Folder 4
Time Pieces,
Sept 1973
Scope and Content Note
Slides, black and white photographs. Photo credit: Jürgen Müller-Schneck.
Box 24, Folder 5
Time Pieces,
Sept 1973
Scope and Content Note
Black and white photographs. Photo credit: Hermann Kiessling.
Box 24, Folder 6
Creatures,
Sept 1973
Scope and Content Note
Galerie Baecker, Bochum. Typewritten score, drawings, clippings, press packets.
Box 24, Folder 7
Creatures,
Sept 1973
Scope and Content Note
Black and white snapshots and minox. No Photo credit.
Box 24, Folder 8
Air Condition,
Oct 1973
Scope and Content Note
California Institute of the Arts. Handwritten score, transcript of audio tape of event, activity booklet, printed pages from
booklet, black and white photographs and slides. Photo credit: Alvin Comiter.
Box 24, Folder 9
Routine,
Dec 1973
Scope and Content Note
Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Oregon. Handwritten and typewritten scores, activity booklet, Kaprow's introduction to
booklet about event, correspondence, black and white photographs, slides.
Box 25, Folder 1
Then,
Mar 1974
Scope and Content Note
Videotape produced by art/tapes, Florence, Italy. Handwritten score and drawings for video, letter/contract.
Box 25, Folder 2
2nd Routine,
Mar 1974
Scope and Content Note
Stefanotty Gallery, NY. Handwritten and typewritten score, transcript of conference at D'Arc, slides, black and white photographs.
Photo credit: Peter Moore.
Box 25, Folder 3
Dial,
May 1974
Scope and Content Note
California Institute of the Arts. Black and white photographs. No Photo credit.
Box 25, Folder 4
3rd Routine,
July 1974
Scope and Content Note
"Project 74", Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne. Handwritten and typewritten score, Kaprow's postscript to event for booklet,
printed text and photos for booklet, slides.
Box 25, Folder 5
On Time,
Sept 1974
Scope and Content Note
Galerie Gerald Piltzer, Turenne. Handwritten score, activity booklet, posters, black and white photographs.
Box 25, Folder 6
Take Off,
Oct 1974
Scope and Content Note
Galleria Martini & Ronchetti, Genoa. Handwritten and typewritten score, black and white photographs, slides, booklet text.
Box 25, Folder 7
Affect,
Oct 1974
Scope and Content Note
Galleria Martano, Turin. Handwritten and typewritten score, printed pages of booklet, black and white photographs.
Box 26, Folder 1
Rates of Exchange,
Mar 1975
Scope and Content Note
Stefanotty Gallery, NYC. Handwritten and typewritten scores for three parts: Reflecting, Walking and Shaking, Clothing. Black
and white photographs and printed text for booklet. Activity booklet in Box 23 (because too large for file).
Box 26, Folder 2
Rates of Exchange,
Mar 1975
Scope and Content Note
Transcripts of audio tapes of the activities, with Linda Bastien, Victoris, Frantisek (or J.P.).
Box 26, Folder 3
Rates of Exchange,
Mar 1975
Scope and Content Note
Transcripts of audio tapes of the activities, with Michael, Max, Baecker.
Box 26, Folder 4
Rates of Exchange,
Mar 1975
Scope and Content Note
Transcripts of audio tapes of the activities, with Marcia Tucker, Frantisek, Antonio, Inge Baecker.
Box 26, Folder 5
Philadelphia Bicentennial Project,
May 1975
Scope and Content Note
Letter to Acey Wolgin describing score for a proposed happening.
Box 26, Folder 6
Echo-Logy,
May 1975
Scope and Content Note
Merrieworld West Gallery, Far Hills, NY. Handwritten and typewritten scores, black and white snapshots, activity booklet,
printed pages from booklet. Photo credit: Lizbeth Marano.
Box 26, Folder 7
Comfort Zones,
June 1975
Scope and Content Note
Galeria Vandrés, Madrid. Handwritten and typewritten score in English and Spanish. Black and white photographs, negatives,
activity booklet, printed pages from booklets.
Box 26, Folder 8
Match,
Aug 1975
Scope and Content Note
Kunst und Museumverein Wuppertal, Germany. Handwritten and typewritten scores, correspondence, activity booklet, printed pages
from booklet, black and white photograph. Photo credit: Jürgen Müller-Schneck.
Box 26, Folder 9
Warm-Ups,
Oct 1975
Scope and Content Note
Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT, Boston. Handwritten and typewritten score, activity booklet, printed pages of booklet,
correspondence, black and white photographs. Photo credit: Bee Ottinger.
Box 26, Folder 10
Likely Stories,
Nov 1975
Scope and Content Note
Galleria Luciano Anselmino, Milan. Handwritten and typewritten score, activity booklet, printed pages from booklet, black
and white and color photographs. Photo credit: Skip Norman
Box 27, Folder 1
Useful Fictions,
Dec 1975
Scope and Content Note
Galleria Schema, Florence. Handwritten and typewritten score, printed pages of booklet, black and white photographs. Photo
credit: Bee Ottinger.
Box 27, Folder 2
Natural Distances,
Mar 1976
Scope and Content Note
Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art. Typewritten score, printed pages of booklet, black and white photographs.
Box 27, Folder 3
Maneuvers,
Mar 1976
Scope and Content Note
Galleria Framart, Naples. Handwritten score, activity booklet, slides, black and white photographs. No Photo credit.
Box 27, Folder 4
7 Kinds of Sympathy,
Mar 1976
Scope and Content Note
Museum of the 20th Century, Vienna. Handwritten score, activity booklet, printed pages from booklet, black and white photographs.
Photo credit: Bee Ottinger.
Box 27, Folder 5
Satisfaction,
Apr 1976
Scope and Content Note
D'Arc Gallery, NYC. Handwritten and typewritten score, activity booklet, printed pages from booklet, black and white photographs.
Photo credit: Bee Ottinger
Box 27, Folder 6
Durations,
May 1976
Scope and Content Note
Film in cooperation with Pro Musica Nova, Radio Bremen, Galerie Baeker, Bochum. Handwritten and typewritten score, drawings,
clippings, festival program, earlier contracts, and versions of piece originally created in 1968, revised in 1972, and finally
performed in 1976.
Box 27, Folder 7
Durations,
May 1976
Scope and Content Note
Black and white photographs. Photo credit: Joseph Somogyi, A. Buttmann.
Box 27, Folder 8
Testimonials,
[April] 1976
Scope and Content Note
Galeria Foksal, Warsaw. Handwritten score, activity booklet, black and white photographs. No Photo credit.
Box 27, Folder 9
Pre-Socratic,
Aug 1976
Scope and Content Note
Artpark, Lewiston, NY. Handwritten score, drawings, clippings, snapshots.
Box 27, Folder 10
Frameworks,
Aug 1976
Scope and Content Note
American Theater Association Convention, Los Angeles. Handwritten score, transcript of audio recording of activity, black
and white snapshots. No Photo credit.
Box 28, Folder 1
Frames of Mind,
Sept 1976
Scope and Content Note
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein. Handwritten score, shooting score, printed pages of booklet, correspondence, clippings, poster.
Box 28, Folder 2
Frames of Mind,
Sept 1976
Scope and Content Note
Black and white photographs. Photo credit: Dr. Rainer Wick; Jürgen Müller-Schneck.
Box 28, Folder 3
Private Parts,
Nov 1976
Scope and Content Note
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Handwritten score, video script for later filming at Cal State Long Beach.
Box 28, Folder 4
Proposal for Documenta,
1977
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten proposal.
Box 28, Folder 5
Timing,
[April 1978]
Scope and Content Note
What's Cooking, Festival 1, UC San Diego. Handwritten score.
Box 28, Folder 6
2 Appointments,
Jan 1978
Scope and Content Note
Holly Solomon Gallery, NY. Handwritten and typewritten score, letters from participants describing the experience.
Box 28, Folder 7
Peeping Tom,
Mar 1978
Scope and Content Note
La Jolla. Transcript of tape recording of participants.
Box 28, Folder 8
Hello/Good-bye,
July 1978
Scope and Content Note
Los Angeles. Typewritten score.
Box 28, Folder 9
Courtesy,
[June 1977]
Scope and Content Note
KPFA, Los Angeles. Handwritten score.
Box 28, Folder 10
Toothbrushing Piece,
1978
Scope and Content Note
La Jolla. Transcript of tape recording of participants.
Box 28, Folder 11
Standards,
[Dec] 1978
Scope and Content Note
University of Iowa, Cedar Rapids. Handwritten score, activity booklet, background material on Happenings for booklet.
Box 28, Folder 12
Standards,
Dec 1978
Scope and Content Note
Transcript of audio tape of participants.
Box 28, Folder 13
Standards,
Dec 1978
Scope and Content Note
Transcript of audio tape of participants.
Box 28, Folder 14
Standards,
Dec 1978
Scope and Content Note
Black and white snapshots, negatives, transparencies.
Box 29, Folder 1
Blindsight,
Apr 1979
Scope and Content Note
Wichita State University, Kansas. Handwritten and typewritten score, transcript of audio recording of participants, writings
by participants, activity booklet, and drafts of writings for booklet, correspondence.
Box 29, Folder 2
Blindsight,
Apr 1979
Scope and Content Note
Negatives, black and white photographs, transparencies. No Photo credit.
Box 29, Folder 3
Museum Portraits,
Mar [1977]
Scope and Content Note
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg. Handwritten and typewritten score, correspondence (which explains why piece was not performed).
Box 29, Folder 4
Easy Too,
July 1979
Scope and Content Note
University of Arizona, Tucson. Typewritten score.
Box 29, Folder 5
Performing Life,
Aug 1979
Scope and Content Note
Typewritten score.
Box 29, Folder 6
Shadows,
Sept 1979
Scope and Content Note
Kunstwoche in Ihme Zentrum, Hannover. Handwritten score.
Box 29, Folder 7
Tire Tower,
Fall 1979
Scope and Content Note
Galerie Baecker, Bochum. Typewritten description of project by Inge Baecker. Black and white and color photographs of tower
before and after it was destroyed by arson in January 1980.
Box 29, Folder 8
Untitled Environment,
Jan 1980
Scope and Content Note
Berlin Academy, "Eyes and Ears." Reinvention of Dec. 1958 environment.
Box 29, Folder 9
Exercise,
May 1980
Scope and Content Note
L.A.C.E. and Public Spirit, Los Angeles. Handwritten score.
Box 29, Folder 10
Convoy,
Sept 1980
Scope and Content Note
Tel Hai 80 Arts Festival, Israel. Handwritten description, correspondence, clippings.
Box 29, Folder 11
Team,
Oct 1980
Scope and Content Note
L.A.C.E. and Public Spirit 2, Los Angeles. Handwritten and typewritten score, transcript of participant's account.
Box 29, Folder 12
Making Faces,
Dec 1980
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten score.
Box 30, Folder 1
Meditation Piece,
Mar 1981
Scope and Content Note
Zen Center, Los Angeles. Typewritten score, description of project, letter.
Box 30, Folder 2
Die Zeit Project,
Mar 1981
Scope and Content Note
An action performed in the pages of
Die Zeit. Letters, interview, clippings of the piece, reviews.
Box 30, Folder 3
Europe Tour,
Apr-May 1981
Scope and Content Note
A suite of seven works performed with friends throughout Europe. Correspondence and planning.
Box 30, Folder 4
Just Walking on the Edge (Europe tour),
Apr 1981
Scope and Content Note
Oxfordshire. Handwritten score, transcript of audio tape of participants.
Box 30, Folder 5
Leaving No Footprints (Europe tour),
May 1981
Scope and Content Note
Berlin. Handwritten score, transcript of audio tape of participants.
Box 30, Folder 6
Drawing on Stories (Europe tour),
May 1981
Scope and Content Note
Amsterdam. Handwritten score, drawings, transcript.
Box 30, Folder 7
Quiet Please (Europe tour),
May 1981
Scope and Content Note
Paris. Handwritten score, notes, transcript.
Box 30, Folder 8
Going/Staying (Europe tour),
May 1981
Scope and Content Note
Pouillac-Le-Moustier. Handwritten score, transcript.
Box 30, Folder 9
Weighty Matters (Europe tour),
May 1981
Scope and Content Note
Florence. Handwritten and typewritten score, transcript.
Box 30, Folder 10
Our Life Together (Europe tour),
May 1981
Scope and Content Note
Munich. Handwritten and typewritten score, transcript.
Box 30, Folder 11
Europe tour,
Apr-May 1981
Scope and Content Note
Bound compilation of transcripts.
Box 30, Folder 12
Yard,
Oct 1981
Scope and Content Note
Dusseldorf. Letters, clippings and black and white photographs of this reinvention of the 1960 Happening as part of an exhibition
entitled "Black," which also travelled to Japan. Photo credit: Antje Zeis; Ulrich Baatz.
Box 31, Folder 1
(Meditation 2) Piece for 80 Langston Street,
Aug 1981
Scope and Content Note
San Francisco. Handwritten score and notes.
Box 31, Folder 2
Exercise no. 6,
Oct 1981
Scope and Content Note
Typewritten score.
Box 31, Folder 3
Exercise no. 4,
Oct 1981
Scope and Content Note
Espace DBD, Los Angeles. Handwritten score.
Box 31, Folder 4
Maybe the Shortest Parade,
Nov 1981
Scope and Content Note
Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C. Typewritten score, correspondence, clippings, poster, slides, black and
white photographs. Photo credit: Mary Swift; Mark Gulezian.
Box 31, Folder 5
Company,
Apr 1982
Scope and Content Note
Rutgers University. Score/announcement.
Box 31, Folder 6
Photoplay,
Oct 1982
Scope and Content Note
Los Angeles/San Diego. Handwritten score, typewritten description of activity.
Box 31, Folder 7
Yard,
Oct 1982
Scope and Content Note
Staatliche Museen, Berlin. Correspondence, drawings.
Box 31, Folder 8
Carpet Bagging,
Dec 1982
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten score.
Box 31, Folder 9
Untitled,
May 1983
Scope and Content Note
Video as Attitude, Santa Fe/Albuquerque Museums. Handwritten scores for 6 video spots Kaprow created for the festival, correspondence,
brochure, clippings.
Box 31, Folder 10
Drag,
June 1984
Scope and Content Note
UC San Diego. Handwritten and typewritten score, Kaprow's account of the activity.
Box 31, Folder 11
A Private Act in a Public Place,
Aug 1984
Scope and Content Note
International Summer Academy, Salzburg. Typewritten score. See also Box 65, folder 7.
Box 31, Folder 12
Blam!,
Oct 1984
Scope and Content Note
Whitney Museum retrospective on Pop, Minimalism and Performance, which included Kaprow's "Yard" and "Words." (See Box 6 and
7 for files on the first versions of these environments.) Photocopy of letter from Kaprow to Barbara Haskell discussing installation
of the exhibition and other matters, drawings, press release, color slides. No Photo credit.
Box 31, Folder 13
René Block Said Don't Call This the Milky Way and I Agreed,
Nov 1985
Scope and Content Note
Hamburg Peace Biennale. Correspondence and 2 black and white photographs of Kaprow's event on verso of which is title. Photo
credit: Elke Walford.
Box 31, Folder 14
Piece for Coryl's Birthday,
Dec 1985
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten score.
Box 31, Folder 15
Kaprow retrospective,
[Oct] 1986
Scope and Content Note
Das Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany. Correspondence, announcements, drawings, black and white photographs of "The Perfect
Bed" and events reinvented for the retrospective. Photo credit: Alfred Koch; Erik Andersch.
Box 31, Folder 16
Conference Event,
Oct 1986
Scope and Content Note
The Evaluative Process in Contemporary Art, Richmond Museum of Fine Arts. Handwritten and typewritten score, Kaprow's description
of event and reaction to it, correspondence regarding Richmond event and an earlier attempt at a conference event at the University
of Iowa, which was interrupted.
Box 31, Folder 17
Apples and Oranges,
Oct 1986
Scope and Content Note
La Commedia del Arte, Los Angeles. Typewritten score, press release, poster, clipping, color snapshots.
Box 31, Folder 18
Burdens,
Mar 1987
Scope and Content Note
Penn State Museum of Art. Transcript of audio tape of event, correspondence.
Box 31, Folder 19
Whether Weather,
Apr-May 1987
Scope and Content Note
Museum of Seasonal Change, San Diego. Handwritten and typewritten score, color slides.
Box 31, Folder 20
Events for Documenta 8,
Jun-Dec. 1987
Scope and Content Note
Documenta 8, Kassel. Handwritten description of two events Kaprow created: "Red Carpet for the Public," and a broom piece;
correspondence.
Box 32, Folder 1
Office Boy,
Nov 1987
Scope and Content Note
Zabriskie Gallery, NY. Score (as devised by Virginia Zabriskie) in a letter to Kaprow, other letters describing reaction to
the event or event planning.
Box 32, Folder 2
Help Yourself,
1987
Scope and Content Note
Color snapshot and slides. No Photo credit.
Box 32, Folder 3
Proceedings, UT Arlington Kaprow Retrospective,
Mar 1988
Scope and Content Note
Reinvention of Kaprow pieces and symposium on his work. Correspondence, writings on the theme of retrospection, transcript
of taped conversation between Barbara Smith, Richard Schechner and Jeff Kelley, snapshots, drawings. See also folders 5 and
6 for "18 Happenings" and "Routine," reinvented as part of this retrospective.
Box 32, Folder 4
Proceedings, UT Arlington Kaprow Retrospective,
Mar 1988
Scope and Content Note
Posters, programs, proposals, workshop notes.
Box 32, Folder 5
18 happenings in 6 parts,
Mar 1988
Scope and Content Note
New York City. Typewritten score, list of participants, black and white photographs. Photo credit: Peter Moore.
Box 32, Folder 6
Routine,
[May] 1988
Scope and Content Note
Mills College, Oakland, CA. typewritten score.
Box 32, Folder 7
What's Watts Watts,
1988
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten score.
Box 32, Folder 8
An Electronic Happening,
July 1989
Scope and Content Note
Western Behavioral Science Institute, La Jolla. Handwritten and typewritten score, notes, drawings, e-mails.
Box 32, Folder 9
Taking a Shoe for a Walk,
Aug 1989
Scope and Content Note
Salute to Fluxus, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn. Handwritten and typewritten score, correspondence, clippings, poster, bound book
of black and white photographs. Photo credit: Wolfgang Träger.
Box 32, Folder 10
Where the Borders Really Are,
Jun 1990
Scope and Content Note
A Meeting of the Worlds, An International Festival of Music and the Arts, Finland. Handwritten and typewritten score, correspondence,
brochures, programs, maps, press releases.
Box 32, Folder 11
Kaprow-Negesy Project,
Sept 1991
Scope and Content Note
UC San Diego. Handwritten notes, program.
Box 32, Folder 12
Cabin,
Sept 1991
Scope and Content Note
Milan. Color photographs, black and white photocopies.
Box 32, Folder 13
Shaking Barrels,
1991
Scope and Content Note
Published booklet of tributes to Jerome Rothenberg at 60 containing Kaprow Happening.
Box 32, Folder 14
7 Environments,
1991-1992
Scope and Content Note
Fondazione Mudima, Milan (1991) and Studio Morra, Naples (1992). Correspondence and printed matter regarding the exhibition.
See also Box 61, folder 23 for correspondence regarding this exhibition.
Box 32, Folder 15
7 Environments,
1991-1992
Scope and Content Note
Fondazione Mudima, Milan (1991) and Studio Morra, Naples (1992). Color transparencies, photocopies, black and white photographs
of the environments reinvented for the Milan portion of the retrospective. Black and white photographs of "Yard," (Milan).
Photo credit: Fabrizio Garghetti.
Box 33, Folder 1
7 Environments,
1991-1992
Scope and Content Note
Fondazione Mudima, Milan (1991) and Studio Morra, Naples (1992). More of the material found in Box 32, folder 15. Color transparencies,
photocopies, black and white photographs of the environments reinvented for the Milan portion of the retrospective. Black
and white photographs of "Yard," (Milan). Photo credit: Fabrizio Garghetti.
Box 33, Folder 2
7 Environments,
1991-1992
Scope and Content Note
Studio Morra, Naples. Black and white photographs and color snapshots of the Naples portion of the exhibition. Photo credit:
Enrico Cattaneo.
Box 33, Folder 3
4 Environments,
Sept 1992
Scope and Content Note
La Zonmééé, Montreuil and Espace Donguy, Paris. Correspondence between Kaprow and Jacques Donguy regarding the planning of
"4 Environments" and other events, such as panels, that the gallery arranged for Kaprow to participate in. Color transparencies
and black and white photographs of 4 environments reinvented for retrospective: "Eat," "Apple Shrine," "Short Circuit" (reinvention
of 1958 untitled environment), and "Words." See also Box 62 Galerie Donguy files. Photo credit: André Morain.
Transparencies and polaroid prints moved to Box 115, folder 19A.
Box 33, Folder 4
Beauty Parlor 2,
Apr 1993
Scope and Content Note
New York. At Trident Group Printing Firm. Correspondence, drawings, black and white photographs. No Photo credit.
Box 33, Folder 5
Five Minute Delay,
Aug 1993
Scope and Content Note
Biennale d'art contemporain, Lyon, France. Correspondence with Jacque Donguy and Theirry Raspail and Thierry Prat regarding
the piece Kaprow designed for the international festival in Lyon. The piece was called "Barriers" in the correspondence, but
its final name was "Five Minute Delay." Various drawings for the piece included in the correspondence. Handwritten score,
drawings, correspondence, negatives, color snapshots. No Photo credit.
Box 33, Folder 6
Five Minute Delay,
Aug 1993
Scope and Content Note
Biennale d'art contemporain, Lyon, France. Handwritten score, drawings, correspondence, negatives, color snapshots. No Photo
credit.
Box 33, Folder 7
Smarrjack; Load
Aug 1994
Scope and Content Note
Proposals for Multimediale, NY-Seoul. Handwritten letter containing score. Not performed for this event, but performed later
(Feb 1998) for Jerry Rothenberg's class at UC San Diego.
Box 33, Folder 8
Hors Limites,
Sept 1994
Scope and Content Note
Galerie Beaubourg, Paris. Report by David Rammant on the creation of the event. See also Correspondence, Box 62 and 63, Galerie
Donguy files.
Box 33, Folder 9
Waxworks,
May 1995
Scope and Content Note
John Gibson Gallery, NY. Color snapshots of the activity.
Box 33, Folder 10
Fall,
Oct 1995
Scope and Content Note
Performance Festival ("Save/Give") at Kasseler Kunstverein. Handwritten score, correspondence, clippings, black and white
photographs. Photo credit: Martin Rindlisbacher.
Box 33, Folder 11
Assemblage of Hundreds,
Nov [1994]
Scope and Content Note
Benefit for Children's Museum of San Diego. Handwritten score for several possible environments, clipping.
Box 33, Folder 12
A Waste of Time,
[1994]
Scope and Content Note
Leipzig. Typewritten score in English and German.
Box 33, Folder 13
If the Shoe Fits, Sign It,
Apr 1997
Scope and Content Note
Grossmont College, El Cajon, CA. Handwritten score.
Box 33, Folder 14
Plans of Happenings,
Apr 1997
Scope and Content Note
Archivio Conz, Verona. Compilation of typewritten scores presented at exhibition.
Box 34
Project Files, , and Project-related material,
1996-1999 1940-1977
Box 34, Folder 1
Yard,
1996-1997
Scope and Content Note
MOCA, Los Angeles, "Out of Actions." Reinvention of 1960 happening. Correspondence between Kaprow and Paul Schimmel. 1 color
slide and three negatives. Photo credit: Staff Photographer.
Box 34, Folder 2
Yard,
1998-1999
Scope and Content Note
MOCA, Los Angeles,"Out of Actions." Correspondence between Kaprow and Paul Schimmel.
Box 34, Folder 3
Yard,
1998
Scope and Content Note
"Out of Actions," Spain, Japan and Austria. Correspondence with curators of the exhibition at MAK, Austria, MAC, Barcelona,
and MOCA, Tokyo.
Box 34, Folder 4
Metal sign,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
A sign reading, in German, as follows: "Please do not pay any attention to this sign." From unidentified happening?
Box 34, Folder 5
unidentified photos,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Black and white photographs of an unidentified environment?
Box 34, Folder 6
Diary,
1940-1944
Scope and Content Note
A handwritten diary, not by Kaprow, that Kaprow purchased at a thrift store and used for research.
Box 34, Folder 7
Notes,
1960s?
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten notes, ideas, lists, diagrams, notebook pages, draft of review of Jenson's art history text.
Box 34, Folder 8
Notes,
1970s?
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten notes, lists, fragments from unidentified happenings and activities.
Box 34, Folder 9
Notes,
1990s?
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten notes, lists, fragments from activities and lectures.
Box 34, Folder 10
Draft,
1970s?
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten draft of essay about how to use the videotapes and booklets about Kaprow activities.
Box 34, Folder 11
Project proposal,
1958
Scope and Content Note
"Project in Multiple Dimensions," by Kaprow, Robert Watts, and George Brecht.
Box 34, Folder 12
Project proposal,
1970
Scope and Content Note
"The Cubic Mile." Proposal for EA.T. Projects Outside Art, correspondence, interview transcript.
Box 34, Folder 13
Project proposal,
1976?
Scope and Content Note
Proposal for CME - UNESCO, to study closely the consciousness participation in a Kaprow activity induces.
Box 34, Folder 14
Project proposal,
1977
Scope and Content Note
"The Use of Art Performance as a Model for Personal and Social Awareness," a proposal to NEA by Kaprow and six other artists.
Series IV.
Printed Matter,
1952-1997
Physical Description:
7.0 linear feet
Scope and Content Note
Printed Matter includes ref3712 and is organized in 6 subseries.
Series IV.A.
Scrapbooks,
1953-1962
Physical Description:
1.5 linear feet
Scope and Content Note
Pages from two different scrapbooks, disbounded and conserved as individual leaves, containing newspaper clippings, announcements,
and press releases regarding Kaprow's solo and group exhibitions, Happenings, Environments and Activities.
Box 37
Cover of scrapbook in Box 36
Series IV.B.
Clippings,
1953-1997
Physical Description:
2.0 linear feet
Scope and Content Note
Reviews, feature articles, newspaper announcements of Kaprow's solo and group exhibitions, Environments, Happenings, and Activities.
Some duplication of the scrapbook material, but generally more extensive coverage. Also selected press releases and a box
of clipped articles on topics of interest to Kaprow. Arranged chronologically by year.
Box 40
Clippings and press releases, ,
1984-1997 1961-1992
Scope and Content Note
The file of press releases is not comprehensive; additional press releases are filed with the specific piece to which they
pertain.
Box 40, Folder 13
Collection of cartoons and advertisements using the word "Happening."
Box 40, Folder 14
Clippings of general interest
Box 40, Folder 15
Press releases,
1961-1992
Box 41
Clippings,
1927-1997
Scope and Content Note
Clippings and photocopies of articles and book chapters, generally on topics of interest to Kaprow, sometimes on topics that
include Kaprow. See also Oversize.
Box 41, Folder 1
Evreinoff, Nicolos,
The Theatre in Life,
1927
Box 41, Folder 3
Klaw, Spencer, "The Cultural Innovators,"
Fortune,
1960
Box 41, Folder 4
"A Gallery of Galleries in Manhattan,"
Time,
1962
Box 41, Folder 5
Restany, Pierre, "les HAPPENINGS,"
Domus,
1963
Box 41, Folder 6
Ascott, Roy, "The construction of change," (serial?)
1964
Box 41, Folder 7
Mumma, Gordon, "Alvin Lucier's Music for Solo Performer,"
Source,
1965
Box 41, Folder 8
McLuhan, Marshall, "Great Change-Overs for You,"
Vogue,
1966
Box 41, Folder 9
Lippard, Lucy R., "Pulsa,"
Arts Canada,
1968
Box 41, Folder 10
"The Venerability of Pop,"
Time,
1969
Box 41, Folder 11
Gruen, John,
The Party's Over Now (photocopied excerpt),
196?
Box 41, Folder 12
Seckler, D.G., "The Audience is His Medium,"
The Artist in America,
196?
Box 41, Folder 13
Kirby, M., "The Influence of Happenings and Events," (serial?)
1970
Box 41, Folder 14
Chalupecky, J., "Art in Our Age," (serial?)
1970
Box 41, Folder 15
DeMott, Benjamin, "Looking Back on the Seventies,"
Atlantic Monthly,
1971
Box 41, Folder 16
Roth, Moira, "Toward a History of California Performance," Part II,
1978
Box 41, Folder 17
Copeland, Roger, "The Politics of Perception,"
1979
Box 41, Folder 18
Buchwald, A., "TV Fiction, Reality,"
197?
Box 41, Folder 19
Rohde, Sam, "An Introduction Marinetti's Futurist Cooking,"
197?
Box 41, Folder 20
Musgrave, Victor, "The Unknown Art Movement,"
197?
Box 41, Folder 21
Wortz, Melinda, "Architects of Emptiness,"
Arts Magazine,
1980
Box 41, Folder 22
Cullen, Arthur Barrett, "Roy Lichtenstein,"
United,
1984
Box 41, Folder 23
Tomkins, Calvin, "The Prince of Pop,"
Vogue,
1993
Box 41, Folder 24
Reviews of
Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life,
1993-1994
Box 41, Folder 25
Reviews of "InSite 94,"
1994
Box 41, Folder 26
Macys, Ryan, "Conceptual, Interactive showings at the Hyde,"
The Summit,
1997
Box 41, Folder 27
"Schöpfer des Happenings," (serial?)
1997
Box 41, Folder 28
Carpenter, Edmund, "Silent Music and Invisible Art,"
n.d.
Box 41, Folder 29
[author?],
Conversations with Igor Stravinsky (photocopied excerpt from book),
n.d.
Series IV.C.
Announcements,
1952-1997
Physical Description:
1 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
Announcements for Kaprow solo exhibitions, events, and speaking engagements and for Kaprow group exhibitions and events and
for exhibitions of other artists. Arranged chronologically by year in each category.
Box 42, Folder 9
AK solo, (UC Press catalog advertising Kaprow's book),
1993
Box 43, Folder 2
AK group, (Video as Attitude)
1983
Series IV.D.
Posters,
1951-1995
Physical Description:
16.0 flat file folders
Scope and Content Note
Posters announcing Kaprow's solo or group exhibitions, happenings or environments, or the exhibitions of other artists. In
some cases the poster also serves as the score for an event. Posters arranged chronologically by year.
Oversize 1**
Kaprow solo exhibitions or events,
1957-1969
Oversize 1**
C-Print of "Rearrangeable Panels,"
1957-1958
Oversize 1**
"!8 Happenings in 6 Parts," Reuben Gallery, NY,
1959
Oversize 1**
"4 Happenings by Alan Kaprow," Smolin Gallery, NY,
n.d.
Oversize 1**
"Bon Marché," Idealia, Paris,
1963
Oversize 1**
"Eat," Smolin Gallery, NY,
1964
Oversize 1**
Lecture Series, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston,
1966
Oversize 1**
"Gas," Long Island, NY,
1966
Oversize 1**
"Fluids," Pasadena Art Museum,
1967
Oversize 1**
"Moving," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago,
1967
Oversize 1**
"Population," Colby Jr. College,
1968
Oversize 1**
"Overtime," SUNY, New Platz,
1968
Oversize 1**
"Transfer," Wesleyan University,
1968
Oversize 1**
"Record," University of Texas,
1968
Oversize 1**
"Round Trip," SUNY Albany,
1968
Oversize 1**
"Arrivals," Firehouse Gallery, NY
1968
Oversize 1**
"Days Off," MOMA, NY,
1969
Oversize 1**
Happening, Cooper Union, NY,
n.d.
Oversize 2**
Kaprow solo exhibitions or events,
1970-1984
Oversize 2**
"Graft," Kent State University,
1970
Oversize 2**
"Time Pieces" (video),
1973
Oversize 2**
"Affect," Galleria Martano, Torino,
1974
Oversize 2**
Activity-Model, Galeria Foksai PSP, Warszawa,
1976
Oversize 2**
"Maneuvers," Framart/Studio, Napoli,
1976
Oversize 2**
Stories of Allan Kaprow's events in his everyday life, School of Visual Arts, NYC,
1984
Oversize 2**
Free Seminar and Lecture, Tucson Museum of Art,
n.d.
Oversize 2**
"Ritual and Group Interaction," York University,
n.d.
Oversize 3**
Kaprow solo exhibitions or events,
1993-1996
Oversize 3**
"Beauty Parlor," Gibson Gallery, NYC,
1993
Oversize 3**
"Hors Limites," Paris,
1994
Oversize 3**
Allan Kaprow at Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal,
1996
Oversize 3**
Activity, Performance, Event,
1994
Oversize 4**
Kaprow group exhibitions or events,
1958-1967
Oversize 4**
"Collage in America" (Kaprow, Johns, Kline, et al),
1958
Oversize 4**
"No Show," Gertrude Stein Gallery, NYC,
1963
Oversize 4**
"A New Vocabulary," and "A Happening,"
n.d.
Oversize 4**
"Art Now," (Kaprow, Robert Indiana, Richard Stankiewicz), University of Vermont,
1964
Oversize 4**
"Festival of Contemporary Arts," Cornell University,
1964
Oversize 4**
"Ten from Rutgers University," Bianchini Gallery, NYC,
1965
Oversize 4**
"4th annual new york avant garde festival," NYC,
1965
Oversize 4**
"4th annual new york avant garde festival," NYC, (different than above with signatures),
1965
Oversize 4**
"5th annual new york avant garde festival," NYC (with signatures),
1966
Oversize 4**
"Happenings in 3 Countries," (Kaprow, Minujin, Vostell), (3)
1966
Oversize 4**
"A Grand Feed," (Kaprow, Phillip, Al Hansen, et. al.), MASS ART Store, NYC,
1966
Oversize 4**
"3 Evenings of Fan Music," (Kaprow, Phillip Conner, James Terney) NYC,
1967
Oversize 4**
"6th annual NY avant garde festival,"
1967
Oversize 4**
"Happening at the Reuben Gallery," (Kaprow, Red Grooms, Robert Whitman), NYC,
196?
Oversize 4**
"Environments, Situations, Spaces," (Oldenburg, Dine, et. al.) Martha Jackson Gallery, NYC,
n.d.
Oversize 5**
Kaprow group exhibitions or events,
1971-1979
Oversize 5**
International Design Conference, Aspen,
1971
Oversize 5**
"Two American Artists," (Kaprow and Elkin) Western Washington State University, Bellingham,
1973
Oversize 5**
"Aktionen der Avantgarde," (Filliou, Vostell, et. al.), Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin,
1973
Oversize 5**
"Author, Sunshine, Muse," (Kaprow, Neal, Plagens) Eastern Michigan University,
1975
Oversize 5**
"Southland Video Anthology," (Kaprow, Baldessari, Paik, et. al.), Long Beach Museum of Art,
1975
Oversize 5**
"Frames of Mind," Neuer Berliner Kunstverein,
1976
Oversize 5**
"Medium Film," (Kaprow, Broodthaers, Weiner), Berlin,
1976
Oversize 5**
"13th annual new york avant garde festival," NYC,
1977
Oversize 5**
"The Ethics and Economics of Performance Art," (Kaprow, McCarthy, et. al.), LAICA, Los Angeles,
1978
Oversize 5**
"The Gallery of Art," (Kaprow, DeKooning, et. al.) University Northern Iowa,
1978-1979
Oversize 6**
Kaprow group exhibitions or events,
1980-1989
Oversize 6**
"Myth and Ritual," Walker Art Center, Minn.,
1980
Oversize 6**
"Public Spirit," Los Angeles,
1980
Oversize 6**
"The Artist: An Endangered Species?" Washington State University, Pullman,
1981
Oversize 6**
"Experimental Theater Festival," UC San Diego,
1982
Oversize 6**
"Fluxus," Museum Wiesbaden,
1982
Oversize 6**
UC San Diego faculty exhibition,
1984
Oversize 6**
"Visiting Artists," University of Mississippi,
1985-1986
Oversize 6**
Visiting Artists, University of Colorado, Boulder (2),
1985-1986
Oversize 6**
"artists in space project," Hamburg,
1985-1987
Oversize 7**
Kaprow group exhibitions or events,
1990-1995
Oversize 7**
"Collages," Museé d'Unterlinden, Colmar,
1990
Oversize 7**
"The Readymade Boomerang," daadgalerie, Berlin,
1991
Oversize 7**
"Site 94," US/Mexico border,
1994
Oversize 7**
"Here Comes Everybody," conference on Cage, Mills College,
1995
Oversize 7**
Allan Kaprow, Visiting Professor, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como,
1995
Oversize 7**
"Trash," (Kaprow, Oldenburg, Warhol, et. al.), Real Art Ways, Hartford,
n.d.
Oversize 7**
"The Art-Life Game," UC San Diego Visual Arts,
n.d.
Oversize 7**
"A Museum Lecture Workshop Series, LSU,
n.d.
Oversize 7**
La Commedia del Arte," Barbara Smith, Los Angeles,
n.d.
Oversize 7**
"Performance Art Summer," (Kaprow, Rosenthal, McCarthy, et. al.), Los Angeles,
n.d.
Oversize 8-14**
Other artists' exhibitions or events,
1951-1974, n.d.
Oversize 8**
"White Paintings," Rauschenberg (Castelli),
1951
Oversize 8**
Alfred Jensen at Martha Jackson Gallery,
1959
Oversize 9**
B. Thompson (Zabriski),
1960
Oversize 9**
Jasper Johns (Castelli),
1961
Oversize 9**
Jasper Johns (Sonnabend),
1962
Oversize 9**
Tinguely (Galerie handschin), Basel,
1962
Oversize 9**
Brecht, Dine, Johns, et. al. (Arts Council) Philadelphia,
1962-1963
Oversize 9**
Jasper Johns (Castelli),
1963
Oversize 9**
"Hole," Robert Whitman,
1963
Oversize 9**
Nam June Paik (Exposition of Music, Galerie Parnass),
1963
Oversize 9**
Lichtenstein (Castelli),
1963
Oversize 9**
Alfred Jensen (Graham Gallery),
1963
Oversize 9**
"No Show," Kusama, Tyler, et. al.,
n.d.
Oversize 10**
Kriesberg (Graham Gallery),
1964
Oversize 10**
Fluxfest at Cinematheque,
1964
Oversize 10**
Vostell, Beuys, et. al. (Aachen),
1964
Oversize 10**
Arthur Köppcke (galerie allen), Copenhagen,
1964
Oversize 10**
George Segal (Green Gallery), NY,
1964
Oversize 10**
"2ieme Festival de la Libre Expresion," Lebel at Centre Americaine des Americaine des Artistes,
1965
Oversize 10**
Lebel (Galerie Edouard Smith),
1965
Oversize 10**
Alfred Jensen (Royal Marks),
1966
Oversize 10**
Ray Johnson (Castelli),
1966
Oversize 10**
"3ieme Festival de la Libre Expresion," Jean-Jacques Lebel, Théatre de la Chimère,
1966
Oversize 11**
Bill Bollinger (Bykert Gallery),
1967
Oversize 11**
Group show: Bollinger, Judd, et. al. (Bykert Gallery),
1967
Oversize 11**
Robert Duran (Bykert Gallery),
1967
Oversize 11**
Jeff Berner, "The Avant-garde from Dada to McLuhan and Beyond" (Big Sur),
1967
Oversize 11**
Oldenburg (Janis Gallery),
1967
Oversize 11**
Robert Morris (Castelli Gallery),
1967
Oversize 11**
Cy Twombly (Leo Castelli Gallery),
1967
Oversize 11**
Ray Johnson (Richard Feigen Gallery),
1968
Oversize 11**
Christo Wraps the Museum (MOMA),
1968
Oversize 11**
Ron Cooper (Ace Gallery),
1969
Oversize 12**
George Miller (18 W. 11th St.),
1970
Oversize 12**
Ray Ferrer (Castelli Gallery),
1970
Oversize 12**
"Straight Information: a dialogue series of 13 evenings," (School of Visual Arts),
1971-1972
Oversize 12**
Alfred Jensen (Pace Gallery),
1972
Oversize 12**
Guy Johnson (Hundred Acres),
1972
Oversize 12**
Alfred Jensen (Pace Gallery),
1972
Oversize 12**
"Push Pins' New Line,"(Gallery at Cal State, Fullerton),
1974
Oversize 12**
Bill Bollinger- Sculpture (Bykert Gallery),
n.d.
Oversize 12**
No name or title (Howard Wise Gallery),
n.d.
Oversize 12**
"Slipcover," Les Levine (Architecture League of NY),
n.d.
Oversize 13**
Robert Grosvenor (Dwan Gallery),
1966
Oversize 13**
Richard Serra (ACE Gallery),
1970
Oversize 14**
"Here and Now With Watchers: Hawkins, Dlugoszewski, Lang, Dorazio,"
n.d.
Oversize 14**
Jay Milder (Delancey St. Museum),
n.d.
Oversize 15**
"Calling," words on plastic,
1965
Oversize 16**
"Rearrangeable panels," a C-print,
1957
Series IV.E.
Serials,
1959-1994
Physical Description:
0.5 linear feet
Scope and Content Note
Sets of avant-garde journals to which Kaprow subscribed and which occasionally featured his work, or individual issues of
serials or catalogs with articles or items relevant to Kaprow.
Box 44, Folder 1
The Pittsburgh Bicentennial,
1959
Scope and Content Note
Brochure for the Carnegie Institute exhibition of contemporary painting and sculpture
Box 44, Folder 2
Scrap,
1960-1961
Scope and Content Note
Issues 1-6 of the avant-garde journal.
Box 44, Folder 3
The Floating Bear,
1961-1962
Scope and Content Note
Issues 1-22 of the avant-garde journal.
Box 44, Folder 4
The Floating Bear,
1961-1962
Scope and Content Note
Issues 25-37 of the avant-garde journal.
Box 44, Folder 5
Art 1963 - A New Vocabulary,
1962
Scope and Content Note
Corrected proof of a catalog published by the Arts Council of the YM/YWHA.
Box 44, Folder 6
Arts Yearbook 9,
1967
Scope and Content Note
This serial is edited by the staff of
Arts Magazine. This issue titled "The Museum World." Includes article by Kaprow.
Box 44, Folder 7
Judson Newsnotes,
June 1967
Box 44, Folder 8
Japanese serial (title?),
1968
Scope and Content Note
Contains several photographs of Kaprow happenings and environments.
Box 44, Folder 9
Magazin KUNST, Nr. 4,
1974
Scope and Content Note
Issue on video featuring articles section about Kaprow's "Time Pieces."
Box 44, Folder 10
Backworks,
1977
Scope and Content Note
Catalog about contemporary photography.
Box 44, Folder 11
The Dumb Ox,
1980
Scope and Content Note
Issue on performance, guest-edited by Kaprow and Paul McCarthy.
Box 44, Folder 12
Community Arts,
1980
Scope and Content Note
San Diego serial with interview of Kaprow.
Box 44, Folder 14
To the Astonishing Horizon,
1985
Scope and Content Note
Brochure for exhibition by Los Angeles Visual Arts, curated by Peter Frank.
Box 44, Folder 15
Made in U.S.A.,
1987
Scope and Content Note
Brochure of Berkeley Art Museum exhibition.
Box 44, Folder 16
Action/Performance and the Photograph,
1993
Scope and Content Note
Catalog from Turner/Krull Galleries.
Box 44, Folder 17
Performing Arts Journal 46,
1994
Scope and Content Note
Features Kaprow essay on the avant-garde.
Series IV.F.
Miscellaneous,
1965-1995
Physical Description:
.5 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
Papers from Kaprow's books (in the Getty library) and other assorted printed matter.
Box 45, Folder 1
Vision '65 Conference description,
1965
Box 45, Folder 2
Provincetown Fine Arts Workshop information sheet,
1969
Box 45, Folder 3
Video distribution catalog,
197?
Box 45, Folder 4
IREX travel arrangements information,
1985
Box 45, Folder 5
UC San Diego course listing Kaprow's book,
1990
Box 45, Folder 6
Restaurant newsletter,
1995
Box 45, Folder 7
Items tipped in books,
1950-1980
Box 45, Folder 8
Items tipped in books,
1982-1996
Series V.
Writings,
1953-1997
Physical Description:
5 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
Writings is further divided into two subseries.
Series V.A.
Writings by Kaprow,
1953-1997
Physical Description:
3.5 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten and typewritten drafts of Kaprow's writings arranged chronologically by year, followed by files of photographs
taken for
Assemblage, Environments and Happenings, not all of which were printed in the book; these are arranged alphabetically by the last name of the artists. Photographs
taken to illustrate other writings also included.
Box 46
Writings by Kaprow,
1953-1964
Box 46, Folder 1
Notes on Rutgers exhibition,
1953
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten draft of review of New York School exhibition; typewritten drafts and brief descriptions of various other exhbitions.
Box 46, Folder 2
Review of figure painting by Felix Pasilis,
1954
Scope and Content Note
Typewritten drafts.
Box 46, Folder 3
Three drawings by George Bogdonovitch,
1955
Scope and Content Note
Typewritten drafts.
Box 46, Folder 4
Rutgers Report on World Affairs,
1955
Scope and Content Note
Typewritten drafts.
Box 46, Folder 5
American Universities and the Advance-Guard Painter (Rutgers Radio Talk),
1955
Scope and Content Note
Typewritten drafts.
Box 46, Folder 6
Some Thoughts on Italy and America (Rutgers Radio Talk),
1955
Scope and Content Note
Typewritten drafts.
Box 46, Folder 7
Hans Hofmann,
1956
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten and typewritten drafts.
Box 46, Folder 8
Brandeis Youth Foundation Art Program,
1956
Scope and Content Note
Short essays on selected European artists, including Pissarro, Chagall, Modigliani. Typewritten and printed versions.
Box 46, Folder 9
The Demiurge,
1958
Scope and Content Note
Typewritten.
Box 46, Folder 10
The Plain of La Crau by Vincent Van Gogh,
1958
Scope and Content Note
Typewritten.
Box 46, Folder 11
The Principles of Modern Art,
1959
Scope and Content Note
Typewritten, with clipping. Published in
It Is (New York) no. 4.
Box 46, Folder 12
Letter to the Editor,
1959
Scope and Content Note
Clipping of Kaprow letter to
Art News regarding Irving Sandler article.
Box 46, Folder 13
"Some Observations on Contemporary Art,"
1961
Scope and Content Note
Typewritten ms. published in catalog for the exhibition "New Forms, New Media I," Martha Jackson Gallery. With note describing
it as condensed version of essay in
Assemblage, Environments and Happenings, which was not finally published until 1966.
Box 46, Folder 14
"Happenings in the New York Scene,"
1961
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten and typewritten drafts, galleys, and clipping of Kaprow article published in
Art News 60, no. 3.
Box 46, Folder 15
"Irving Kriesberg,"
1961
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten and typewritten drafts of essay published in the Jewish Museum catalog.
Box 46, Folder 16
Lecture at Smolin Gallery, NY,
1962
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten draft of essay about Happenings; no title on ms.
Box 46, Folder 17
"Nature in the Art of Irving Kriesberg,"
1963
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten draft of essay published in
Art News, Dec. 1963
Box 46, Folder 18
A reading of a Mondrian painting,
1963?
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten fragmentary draft, possibly an early draft of Mondrian section of "Impurity,"
Box 46, Folder 19
"The Construction of Boston,"
1963
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten draft of article describing this theater event.
Box 46, Folder 20
"The Effect of Recent Art Upon the Teaching of Art,"
1963
Scope and Content Note
Presented at CAA; published in
Art Journal 23, no. 2.
Box 46, Folder 21
"Impurity,"
1963
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten and typewritten drafts of essay published in
Art News 61, no.9.
Box 46, Folder 22
"The Future of Pop Art,"
1963
Scope and Content Note
Several typewritten versions of piece published in German in
Happenings, ed. Jurgen Claus et al. Also possibly was a talk presented at a symposium at the Jewish Museum, March 3, 1963.
Box 46, Folder 23
"Pop Art,"
1963
Scope and Content Note
Excerpt from above article.
Box 46, Folder 24
"Art and Politics,"
1963
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten draft of talk given at SUNY?
Box 46, Folder 25
"Segal's Vital Mummies,"
1964
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten and typewritten drafts, with letters to Thomas Hess. Published in
Art News 62 no.10.
Box 46, Folder 26
"The Artist as a Man of the World,"
1963
Scope and Content Note
Typewritten corrected drafts of this essay published in
Art News 63 no. 6.
Box 46, Folder 27
"Model of Behavior for a Leisure Society,"
1964
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten draft; version of "The Artist as a Man of the World."
Box 47
Writings by Kaprow,
1964-1966
Box 47, Folder 1
"Continuous Experimentation in the Humanities,"
1964-1965
Scope and Content Note
Six typewritten copies.
Box 47, Folder 2
"A Selection of Recent Happenings,"
1964-1965
Scope and Content Note
Typewritten.
Box 47, Folder 3
"The Creation of Art and the Creation of Art Education,"
1965
Scope and Content Note
An essay for the Seminar on Research and Curriculum Development in Art Education, Penn State University. Two copies of typewritten
drafts and one partial printed version distributed at conference. Papers by two other conferencees, Harold Rosenberg and Joshua
Taylor.
Box 47, Folder 4
"A Proposal to Bring Professional Artists into Public Schools,"
1965
Scope and Content Note
Two copies of typewritten ms.
Box 47, Folder 5
"New Goals and Techniques of Happenings,"
1965
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten notes for lecture given in NYC.
Box 47, Folder 6
On How to Make a Happening,
1966
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten lecture notes; eventually part of article in folder 15.
Box 47, Folder 7
"Happenings are Dead: Long Live the Happenings!"
1966
Scope and Content Note
Typewritten fragment of the article published in
Artforum, 4 no. 7.
Box 47, Folder 8
"Experimental Art,"
1966
Scope and Content Note
Notes, handwritten and typewritten drafts of the essay published in
Art News65, no. 1.
Box 47, Folder 9
"The Role of New Museums,"
1966
Scope and Content Note
Notes and drafts of this lecture presented at the ICA Boston.
Box 47, Folder 10
"What Is A Museum? A dialogue between Allan Kaprow and Robert Smithson,"
1966
Scope and Content Note
Photocopy of clipping.
Box 47, Folder 11
"An Institute For Experimental Research In The Arts,"
1966?
Scope and Content Note
Typewritten proposal for the Center for Instructional Resources at SUSB, with budget and clipping about modern art.
Box 47, Folder 12
Assemblage, Environments, and Happenings,
1966
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten drafts and assorted notes for title essay, first written in 1960, then rewritten and published in 1965.
Box 47, Folder 13
Assemblage, Environments, and Happenings,
1966
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten and typewritten drafts of title essay.
Box 47, Folder 14
Assemblage, Environments, and Happenings,
1966
Scope and Content Note
Typewritten drafts of chapters on individual artists.
Box 47, Folder 15
Assemblage, Environments, and Happenings,
1965-1977
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence with publisher Harry Abrams regarding the book.
Box 47, Folder 16
Assemblage, Environments, and Happenings,
1966-1967
Scope and Content Note
Reviews of book, published in 1965, including one review in manuscript.
Box 47, Folder 17
"The Radical Use of the Past,"
1966
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten and typewritten drafts of talk given at CAA, with CAA conference program.
Box 47, Folder 18
"Manifesto,"
1966
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten, typewritten, and printed essay from
Manifestos, A Great Bear pamphlet, Something Else Press, NY.
Box 48
Writings by Kaprow,
1967-1989
Box 48, Folder 1
"Alfred Jensen,"
1967
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten drafts of this catalog essay excerpted from a longer essay published in
Art News, 1963; a letter from Jensen; press releases from Martha Jackson Gallery, 1961.
Box 48, Folder 2
"Pinpointing Happenings,"
1967
Scope and Content Note
Two typewritten copies of essay published in
Art News 66, no. 6.
Box 48, Folder 3
"The Shape of the Art Environment,"
1968
Scope and Content Note
Two typewritten copies of essay that appeared in
Art Forum 6, no. 10.
Box 48, Folder 4
"A Pilot Program in Art Education in the Lower Schools,"
196?
Scope and Content Note
Three typewritten copies of the proposal.
Box 48, Folder 5
"The Arts and Social Well Being,"
196?
Scope and Content Note
Two typewritten copies.
Box 48, Folder 6
"Happenings and the 20th Century Environment,"
1970
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten draft of lecture given at Downstate Medical Center.
Box 48, Folder 7
"The Education of the Un-Artist," Part I,
1971
Scope and Content Note
Typewritten, corrected drafts and clipping of this essay that appeared in
Art News 69, no. 10.
Box 48, Folder 8
"The Education of the Un-Artist," Part II,
1971
Scope and Content Note
Typewritten, corrected draft and clipping of this essay that appeared in
Art News 71, no. 3.
Box 48, Folder 9
Report on the teaching of art in high schools,
1972
Scope and Content Note
Typewritten letter and introduction.
Box 48, Folder 10
"Doctor MD,"
1973
Scope and Content Note
Typewritten copy of essay that appeared in the MOMA exhibition catalog
Marcel Duchamp; with letter to Kaprow from MOMA curator.
Box 48, Folder 11
"The Utility of a Particular Past,"
1973
Scope and Content Note
Typewritten essay on Duchamp, with letter from Kaprow.
Box 48, Folder 12
"Formalism: Flogging a Dead Horse,"
1974
Scope and Content Note
Typewritten version of essay that appeared in
Quadrille 9, no. 1.
Box 48, Folder 13
"Video Art: Old Wine, New Bottle,"
1974
Scope and Content Note
Two typewritten versions of essay that appeared in
Art Forum 12, no. 10.
Box 48, Folder 14
"The Education of the Un-Artist, Part III,"
1974
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten and typewritten drafts of essay that appeared in
Art in America 62, no. 1.
Box 48, Folder 15
"postcard back home,"
1974
Scope and Content Note
Typewritten poem about Los Angeles.
Box 48, Folder 16
"Roy Lichtenstein,"
1977
Scope and Content Note
Typewritten corrected draft of essay for Lichtenstein exhibition catalog, California Institute of the Arts.
Box 48, Folder 17
"Participation Performance,"
1977
Scope and Content Note
Typewritten corrected draft of essay that appeared in
Artforum 15, no. 7.
Box 48, Folder 18
"Playing With Memory,"
1978
Scope and Content Note
Typewritten corrected drafts of essay originally requested for
Art-Rite magazine but not published.
Box 48, Folder 19
"New Art Spaces,"
1978
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten essay, an amplified version of talk originally given at LAICA, Los Angeles.
Box 48, Folder 20
"A Preliminary Futurology for Training Professional Artists,"
1978
Scope and Content Note
Typewritten essay for NEA Task Force on Education, with correspondence.
Box 48, Folder 21
Speech about Miriam Schapiro,
1978/1980
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten draft of speech honoring Miriam Schapiro at the Skohegan Awards ceremony, with other material regarding Miriam
Schapiro.
Box 48, Folder 22
"Thought on Picasso in Our Time,"
1980
Scope and Content Note
Typewritten corrected draft of essay for
Art in America, never published, with letter.
Box 48, Folder 23
"The Futility of New Museums,"
1982
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten draft of talk given at UC Los Angeles panel.
Box 48, Folder 24
"The Real Experiment,"
1983
Scope and Content Note
Six typewritten corrected drafts of essay that appeared in
Artforum 12, no. 4.
Box 48, Folder 25
"The Real Experiment,"
1983
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten drafts of above essay (folder 24).
Box 48, Folder 26
"Right Living,"
1987
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten and typewritten drafts of essay in exhibition catalog
A Tribute to John Cage.
Box 48, Folder 27
"A Scenario,"
1988-1989
Scope and Content Note
Essay in
Expanding the Exploratorium, a record of symposium proceedings about the future of the San Francisco Exploratorium.
Box 48, Folder 28
essay on Mu Chi,
14 April 1989
Scope and Content Note
In
Zeitmagazin.
Box 49
Writings by Kaprow, and
1990-1997 n.d.
Box 49, Folder 1
Bon Marché,
1990
Scope and Content Note
Three copies of typewritten lecture.
Box 49, Folder 2
"The Meaning of Life,"
1990
Scope and Content Note
Four typewritten copies, one with corrections, and one photocopy of essay published in
Artforum 28, no. 10.
Box 49, Folder 3
7 Environments
1992
Scope and Content Note
Proofs of essays in the book by Kaprow and others, with Kaprow's corrections.
Box 49, Folder 4
"Giuseppe Zevola,"
1993
Scope and Content Note
Clipping bearing brief description of an installation published in an Italian/English bilingual journal.
Box 49, Folder 5
"Further Thoughts on Experimentation,"
1997
Scope and Content Note
Typewritten account of "Trading Dirt."
Box 49, Folder 6
Memorial for Michael Kirby,
1997
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten, with letter.
Box 49, Folder 7
Talk on Contemporary Art and Myth,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten notes.
Box 49, Folder 8
"Artists and Art Historians,"
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten notes.
Box 49, Folder 9
"The Other Side of Performance,"
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten notes.
Box 49, Folder 10
Notes on Performance,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten lecture notes.
Box 49, Folder 11
Notes for essay on Modernism,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten and typewritten corrected drafts.
Box 49, Folder 12
"Rub-a-dub, Rub-a-dub," Part I,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Typewritten essay.
Box 49, Folder 13
"Zen Buddhism and the American Avant-garde,"
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten and typewritten drafts.
Box 49, Folder 14
Assorted notes,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten.
Box 49, Folder 15
Microfilm copies of various published articles by Kaprow,
n.d.
Box 50
Photographs for
Assemblage, Environments, and Happenings,
1960-1966
Scope and Content Note
Black and white photographs of work by artists featured in the book, with additional photographs not selected for inclusion.
Arranged in alphabetical order by the artists' last names. Photo credit listed if known.
Box 50, Folder 1
Ay-O
Scope and Content Note
Photo credit:?
Box 50, Folder 2
George Brecht
Scope and Content Note
Photo credit: Scott Hyde
Box 50, Folder 3
Ken Dewey
Scope and Content Note
Photo credit: Scotsman Publications, Ltd.; Pressens Bild AB; Alan Daiches.
Box 50, Folder 4
Jim Dine
Scope and Content Note
Photo credit: Robert McElroy; Oldenburg; George Harych?
Box 50, Folder 5
Martha Edelheit
Scope and Content Note
Photo credit: Gilligan
Box 50, Folder 6
Jean Follett
Scope and Content Note
Photo credit:?
Box 50, Folder 7
Red Grooms
Scope and Content Note
Photo credit: Max Baker
Box 50, Folder 8
Gutai theater
Scope and Content Note
Photo credit:?
Box 50, Folder 9
Allan Kaprow
Scope and Content Note
Photo credit: Terry S. Lindquist; Robert McElroy; Peter Moore; Edwin M. Sabol; Will Gainfort; George Hurych; shunk-kender;
Shustak.
Box 50, Folder 10
Allan Kaprow ("Household")
Scope and Content Note
Photo credit: Peter Moore?
Box 50, Folder 11
Milan Knízák
Scope and Content Note
Photo credit: Fotografovala
Box 50, Folder 12
Yayoi Kusama
Scope and Content Note
Photo credit: Peter Moore
Box 50, Folder 13
Jean Jacques Lebel
Scope and Content Note
Photo credit: F. Massal; Camera Photo.
Box 50, Folder 14
Claes Oldenburg
Scope and Content Note
Photo credit: Robert McElroy; Rudolph Burckhardt
Box 50, Folder 15
Robert Rauschenberg
Scope and Content Note
Photo credit: Rudolph Burckhardt
Box 50, Folder 16
Lucas Samaras
Scope and Content Note
Photo credit: ?
Box 50, Folder 17
Clarence Schmidt
Scope and Content Note
Photo credit: Peter Moore
Box 51
Photographs for
Assemblage, Environments, and Happenings, "Education of the Un-Artist," and Alfred Jensen essays.
1960-1974
Box 51, Folder 1
George Segal
Scope and Content Note
Photo credit: Nancy Astor, Carlo Bavagnoli, Peter Moore, Eric Pollitzer
Box 51, Folder 2
Jean Tinguely
Scope and Content Note
Photo credit: Peter Moore, David Gahr
Box 51, Folder 3
Wolf Vostell
Scope and Content Note
Photo credit: Kuhn; Peter Moore;
Box 51, Folder 4
Bob Watts
Scope and Content Note
Photo credit: Robert McElroy
Box 51, Folder 5
Robert Whitman
Scope and Content Note
Photo credit: John Pitkin, Robert McElroy, Francesco Cantarella
Box 51, Folder 6
various, with letter from Harry Abrams regarding the photographs
Scope and Content Note
Photo credit: Gerard Ifert, Alfred Konzelle, Don Cook
Box 51, Folder 7
Contact prints
Scope and Content Note
Photo credit: Peter Moore
Box 51, Folder 8
Photos for "The Education of the Un-Artist,"
ca. 1974
Scope and Content Note
Photo credit:?
Box 51, Folder 9
Photos for Alfred Jensen research,
ca. 1963
Scope and Content Note
Photo credit: Oliver Baker; Rudolph Burckhardt; Adolph Studly
Box 52
Maquette of
7 Environments, with copy,
1992
Series V.B.
Writings by Others,
1960-1994
Physical Description:
1.5 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
Manuscripts of critical essays on Kaprow or on art movements of which his work may be considered a part. Interviews with Kaprow.
Theses and dissertations on Kaprow or related to his work. Arranged in alphabetical order by the last name of the authors.
Box 53
Critical essays and interviews,
1960-1994
Box 53, Folder 1
Baier, Hans,
Kunst 4/5 Magazine interview,
1966
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten and typewritten drafts, correspondence, issue of magazine.
Box 53, Folder 2
Constable, Rosalind, "Some Notes on Pop Culture,"
1960
Scope and Content Note
Typewritten manuscript.
Box 53, Folder 3
Daniels, Dieter, "Interview with Allan Kaprow,"
1986
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten and typewritten drafts. Published in Ludwig Museum (Köln) catalog.
Box 53, Folder 4
Donguy, Jacques, "Allan Kaprow" (interview)
1991
Scope and Content Note
Typewritten corrected manuscript.
Box 53, Folder 5
Frank, Peter, "Allan Kaprow: Early Figuratve Pictures,"
1981
Scope and Content Note
Typewritten manuscripts.
Box 53, Folder 6
Leonard Harris interview with Kaprow for CBS,
1967
Scope and Content Note
Typewritten script, skeletal, with only Harris' lines inserted.
Box 53, Folder 7
Heinemann, Sue and Carrie Rickey, "Engaged in a Trial-ogue,"
1978
Scope and Content Note
Typewritten ms. of interview with the two authors and Allan Kaprow.
Box 53, Folder 8
Heitz, Richard, "The Theory of Performance Art,"
1979
Scope and Content Note
Three copies of typewritten ms.
Box 53, Folder 9
Heitz, Richard, "Flesh Art,"
1980
Scope and Content Note
Typewritten ms. with letter.
Box 53, Folder 10
Hindman, James T., "Self-Performance: Allan Kaprow's Activities,"
1979
Scope and Content Note
Typewritten ms. and galley.
Box 53, Folder 11
Kelly, Jeff, Prospectus for
Child's Play,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Typewritten ms. with letter.
Box 53, Folder 12
Kontova, Helena, and Giancarlo Politic, "Allan Kaprow,"
1992
Scope and Content Note
Typewritten corrected ms. of interview published in
Flash Art.
Box 53, Folder 13
Montano, Linda, "Allan Kaprow,"
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Typewritten ms. of interview.
Box 53, Folder 14
Krim, Seymour, "Seymour Krim Interviewing Allan Kaprow,"
1960
Scope and Content Note
Three copies of typewritten ms., with letter.
Box 53, Folder 15
Roth, Moira, "Coming of Age: California Performance Art in 1980,"
1980
Scope and Content Note
Typewritten ms.
Box 53, Folder 16
Roth, Moira, "Interview with Allan Kaprow,"
1981
Scope and Content Note
Typewritten ms. of interview for Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institute.
Box 53, Folder 17
Roth, Moira, "Allan Kaprow,"
1973
Scope and Content Note
Typewritten ms. with letter.
Box 53, Folder 18
Roth, Moira with Suzanne Lacy, and Kaprow,
1983
Scope and Content Note
Taped discussion/interview. See also udiotape (C65 in Series X) this is transcribed from.
Box 53, Folder 19
Stiles, Kristine,
1994
Scope and Content Note
Typewritten ms., "Shadows in a Vertical Life."
Box 53, Folder 20
Strimling, Arthur, "Allan Kaprow Interviewed by Arthur Strimling,"
1991
Scope and Content Note
Typewritten ms.
Box 54
Theses and dissertations,
1989-1994
Box 54, Folder 1
Koop, Stuart, "Amateurism: An emergent category of cultural analysis in the 50s and 60s,"
1994
Scope and Content Note
M.A. thesis for Monash University, Australia, for which Kaprow wrote an outside report.
Box 54, Folder 2
Lehnert, Pamela A., "An American Happening: Allan Kaprow and a Theory of Process Art,"
1989
Scope and Content Note
Bound dissertation for University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. (Too large for folder).
Box 54, Folder 3
Massi, Richard Wood, "Computer, Graphic, and Traditional Systems: A Theoretical Study of Music Notation,"
1993
Scope and Content Note
UC San Diego doctoral dissertation for which Kaprow served on committee, pp. 1-143.
Box 54, Folder 4
Massi, Richard Wood,
1993
Scope and Content Note
Same as above, pp. 144-307.
Box 55
Theses and dissertations,
1979-1994
Box 55, Folder 1
O'Dell, Kathy R., "Allan Kaprow: The Artist as Writer and Educator,"
1979-1980
Scope and Content Note
Seminar paper for History of Art course.
Box 55, Folder 2
O'Dell, Kathy R., "Allan Kaprow: The Artist as Educator,"
1982
Scope and Content Note
Bound M.A. Thesis, UC Berkeley.
Box 55, Folder 3
Schröder, Johannes Lothar, "Identität, Überschreitung, Verwandlung: Happenings, Aktionen, und Performances von bildenden Künstlern,"
1986
Scope and Content Note
Paper bound dissertation.
Box 55, Folder 4
Schröder, Johannes Lothar, "Identität, Überschreitung, Verwandlung: Happenings, Aktionen, und Performances von bildenden Künstlern,"
1986
Scope and Content Note
Appendix.
Box 55, Folder 5
Sinn, Dorothy G., "The Duchamp Effect: the influence of Marcel Duchamp on the work of John Cage and Allan Kaprow,"
1994
Scope and Content Note
M.A. thesis for Kent State University
Series VI.
Teaching files,
1952-1993
Physical Description:
4 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
This series includes ref3712 and is further divided into three subseries.
Series VI.A.
Correspondence,
1952-1993
Physical Description:
.5 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence between Kaprow and teaching colleagues or university administrators, frequently regarding salary or promotion.
Box 56
Correspondence,
1952-1993
Box 56, Folder 1
Rutgers University Correspondence,
1952-1961
Scope and Content Note
Kaprow's letter of application to teach in the Art Department and discussion of course content with Professor Helmut von Erffa,
Department Chair. Correspondence with the Dean regarding reappointment. Lengthy distressed letter from Kaprow to Meyer Schapiro
disclosing his difficulties with colleagues and administration. Further letters to various administration officials regarding
well-earned promotions not received. Letters regarding Kaprow's decision to leave Rutgers.
Box 56, Folder 2
Rutgers University Correspondence,
1959
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence with various faculty members and administrators regarding the controversy over the work of Lucas Samaras, student
of Allan Kaprow's at Rutgers, who submitted poems containing profanity as part of his final art project.
Box 56, Folder 3
SUNY, Stonybrook Correspondence,
1961-1966
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding Kaprow's teaching appointments and re-appointments at Stonybrook. One indignant letter from Kaprow
regarding the University's hiring of an artist not embraced by the art department faculty. Two brochures on University policies
and one on Regents rules regarding subversive activities.
Box 56, Folder 4
SUNY, Stonybrook Correspondence,
1967-1968
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding promotions, awards, and leaves of absence.
Box 56, Folder 5
SUNY, Stonybrook Correspondence,
1968-1969
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding Grand Jury investigation of drug use by Kaprow and others at Stonybrook.
Box 56, Folder 6
Letters from University of California,
1966
Scope and Content Note
Regarding visiting appointments.
Box 56, Folder 7
Letter to Hunter College,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten draft of application letter written to Hunter college, apparently while Kaprow was teaching at Stonybrook.
Box 56, Folder 8
California Institute of the Arts Correspondence,
1968-1972
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding appointment, re-appointments, and salary.
Box 56, Folder 9
UC San Diego Correspondence,
1979-1989
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding merit increases, research, etc.
Box 56, Folder 10
Honors ,
1993
Scope and Content Note
UC San Diego undergraduate celebration of the arts award, Phi Beta Kappa membership handbook for new members.
Series VI.B.
Course Materials,
1952-1989
Physical Description:
1 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
Scattered notes and drafts of lectures, exams, workshop assignments and syllabi. Box 57A devoted to Project Other Ways, an
educational program for Berkeley Public Schools sponsored by the Carnegie Institute and co-directed by Allan Kaprow and Herbert
Kohl.
Box 57
Course materials,
1952-1989
Box 57, Folder 1
Note for Rutgers courses,
195?
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten draft of exam; library check-out slips.
Box 57, Folder 2
Pratt Institute teaching notes,
1961
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten and typewritten syllabus.
Box 57, Folder 3
Lecture notes on middle class art,
1967
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten notes.
Box 57, Folder 4
Course syllabi, SUNY Stonybrook,
1966-1968
Scope and Content Note
Syllabi and course descriptions for film class and other classes Kaprow taught.
Box 57, Folder 5
Courses for New York University,
1969
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and course materials.
Box 57, Folder 6
Notes for courses and projects,
ca. 1960-1980
Scope and Content Note
Miscellaneous handwritten notes for class exercises, lectures, etc.
Box 57, Folder 7
Chinese Art course,
1965
Scope and Content Note
Course notes for summer class Kaprow taught at NYU.
Box 57, Folder 8
Chinese Art course,
1965
Scope and Content Note
Photocopies of articles and other research materials for course.
Box 57, Folder 9
California Institute of the Arts courses, ca.
1971-1979
Scope and Content Note
Assignments for courses on Happenings, with student work/responses.
Box 57, Folder 10
UC San Diego courses,
ca. 1980-1989
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten syllabi and course descriptions.
Box 57, Folder 11
Paul Klee lecture notes,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten list of works discussed.
Box 57, Folder 12
Art History exam,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Reproduction of Picasso painting with exam question; miscellaneous press releases.
Box 57A
Project Other Ways,
1967-1969
Box 57A, Folder 1
Other Ways,
1967-1969
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding this art education project for Berkeley public schools.
Box 57A, Folder 2
Other Ways,
1968-1969
Scope and Content Note
Reports on the Huntting conference for Teachers and Writers, with Herbert Kohl, co-director of Project Other Ways.
Box 57A, Folder 3
Other Ways,
1968-1969
Scope and Content Note
Photocopied articles regarding education (research materials for Project Other Ways?)
Box 57A, Folder 4
Other Ways,
1968-1969
Scope and Content Note
Brochures, posters, booklets, audio record, and other materials regarding this art education project for Berkeley public schools.
Box 57A, Folder 5
Other Ways,
1968-1969
Scope and Content Note
Brochures, posters, booklets, audio record, and other materials regarding this art education project for Berkeley public schools.
Series VI.C.
Art Reproductions,
n.d.
Physical Description:
1.5 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
Images from all periods of art history that Kaprow used for teaching and research. See also Lecture Slides Boxes 116-118.
Box 58, Folder 4-5
Art reproductions-announcements
Box 59, Folder 1-2
Art reproductions-clippings
Box 59, Folder 3-4
Art reproductions-postcards
Box 60
Reproductions
Scope and Content Note
Images needing 13 x 17 inch box.
Box 60, Folder 3-4
Art reproductions-clippings
Series VII.
Professional Correspondence,
1946-1998
Physical Description:
2.5 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
This series comprises correspondence with associates other than fellow artists, including curators, dealers, editors, academics.
Arranged alphabetically by the last name of the correspondent or the name of the institution or organization.
Box 61
Professional Correspondence,
1958-1997
Box 61, Folder 1
American Federation of the Arts,
1983-1996
Scope and Content Note
Regarding AFA exhibitions "Neo-Dada" and "Hans Hoffmann," to which Kaprow contributed pieces. Draft of Kaprow letter requesting
payment for damage done to his collage "Blue, Blue, Blue." Clippings.
Box 61, Folder 2
annual avant-garde festival of new york,
1975
Scope and Content Note
Letter of thanks to Kaprow for his piece; festival program.
Box 61, Folder 3
Archives of Experimental Art,
1987
Scope and Content Note
Letter from Barbara Moore regarding the Dortmund catalog.
Box 61, Folder 4
Artforum,
1983-1984
Scope and Content Note
Responses to Kaprow's "The Real Experiment," that appeared in Artforum's December 1983 issue.
Box 61, Folder 5
Art in America,
1994
Scope and Content Note
Photocopies of Kaprow environment, with letter.
Box 61, Folder 6
Art News,
1958-1959
Scope and Content Note
Kaprow's Letter to the Editor regarding Sandler's response to his article on Pollock, Kaprow's response to Rosenberg's "10th
Street" article, and one letter from a reader responding to Fairfield Porter's negative review of Kaprow's work.
Box 61, Folder 7
Artists for Aids Assistance,
1987
Scope and Content Note
Regarding a Kaprow performance for this group.
Box 61, Folder 8
Athenaeum,
1989-1990
Scope and Content Note
Letter, press releases and clippings regarding panels and seminars on integrating art and architecture in San Diego.
Box 61, Folder 9
Avant-Garde magazine,
1969
Scope and Content Note
Kaprow letter containing statement about reforming education so as to teach the value of play.
Box 61, Folder 10
Bechtel,
1989
Scope and Content Note
Letter and report informing Kaprow of plans for an Advanced Building Project in Japan.
Box 61, Folder 11
Baecker, Inge,
1979-1986
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence documenting the decline of Kaprow's relationship with this German dealer, mainly over financial issues.
Box 61, Folder 12
Calder, John,
1963-1964
Scope and Content Note
Regarding Happenings in Edinburgh and London at festivals and Calder's being put on trial for indecency.
Box 61, Folder 13
California Arts Council,
1987
Scope and Content Note
Request for Kaprow to serve on Interdisciplinary Arts Program board.
Box 61, Folder 14
California College of Arts and Crafts,
1991
Scope and Content Note
Invitation to "Mapping the Terrain" retreat, with brochures.
Box 61, Folder 15
California Council of Landscape Architects,
1987
Scope and Content Note
Invitation to participate in conference; conference materials.
Box 61, Folder 16
College Art Association of America,
1961-1981
Scope and Content Note
Letters and schedules regarding Kaprow's participation on panels; draft of a talk.
Box 61, Folder 17
Conant, Howard,
1961
Scope and Content Note
Letter from Kaprow.
Box 61, Folder 18
Conz, Francesco,
1994-1997
Scope and Content Note
A thick file of letters and faxes regarding ideas for collaborations, exhibitions, and mutual friends.
Box 61, Folder 19
Daniels, Dieter,
1991-1994
Scope and Content Note
Thick file of correspondence regarding "Mininamedia" exhibition in Leipzig and production of the catalog for it.
Box 61, Folder 20
Dany Keller Galerie,
1980-1981
Scope and Content Note
Regarding exhibition of Kaprow work at the gallery.
Box 61, Folder 21
Dialogue,
1987
Scope and Content Note
Regarding the publication of Kaprow's account of "Conference Event." (See also Project file in Box 31)
Box 61, Folder 22
documenta 8,
1987
Scope and Content Note
Regarding funding for Kaprow's travel to and from Kassel.
Box 61, Folder 23
Fondazione Mudima,
1990
Scope and Content Note
Thick file of letters and faxes to and from Gino Di Maggio regarding Kaprow's piece in Di Maggio's Fluxus exhibition at the
Venice Biennale. Included are drawings for a reinvention of "Push and Pull," an artist's statement, and many letters from
Kaprow requesting details about the execution of the piece, which he didn't see. For 1991 correspondence see Box 33, files
about 7 Environments.
Box 61, Folder 24
Fondazione Mudima,
1992
Scope and Content Note
Letters and faxes between Kaprow and Di Maggio regarding production of the catalog for 7 Environments and its promotion. (For
corrected proofs of the ms., see Writings) Also discussed are the details of contracts between Mudima and Studio Morra and
Galerie Donguy regarding Kaprow exhibitions. There are drawings by Kaprow, and an interview by letter with Angelo Trimarco.
Box 62
Professional Correspondence,
1946-1998
Box 62, Folder 1
Fondazione Mudima,
1993
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence between Kaprow and Di Maggio regarding production and promotion of the catalog for 7 Environments. Desperate
letters and faxes from Kaprow regarding potential sales of his work to collectors and the exhibition of his work at the Venice
Biennale and Casa Malaparte. Drawings of environments. Discussion of Kaprow's problematic public persona as "the Father of
Happenings."
Box 62, Folder 2
Fondazione Mudima, ,
1994-1997 n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence between Kaprow and Gino Di Maggio regarding distribution of the catalog for 7 Environments, Kaprow's "Hors
Limites" environment at Centre Pompidou and the Pompidou's refusal to return a Kaprow piece and other disappointments and
financial problems.
Box 62, Folder 3
Fondazione Ratti,
1997
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence between Kaprow and Anna Ratti regarding a summer course Kaprow taught at the foundation and arrangements for
a collective environment created by students in the course.
Box 62, Folder 4
Forest Hills Cadet Training Squadron,
1946
Scope and Content Note
Thank you note to Kaprow for the insignia he designed.
Box 62, Folder 5
Foundation for Art Resources,
1983
Scope and Content Note
Thank you note to Kaprow for an inspiring talk he gave to the foundation.
Box 62, Folder 6
Fuori Uso,
1998
Scope and Content Note
Request to participate in an exhibition.
Box 62, Folder 7
Galerie Donguy,
Jan-Mar 1994
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence between Kaprow and Donguy regarding the Centre Pompidou's intention to purchase some Kaprow pieces, payment
for "Five Minute Delay," and plans for Kaprow to create a new piece ("Hors Limites") at the Centre Pompidou. See also Box
34, files 3, 5, 6.
Box 62, Folder 8
Galerie Donguy,
Apr-Jun 1994
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding the near cancellation of "Hors Limites" (due to budget cuts) and Kaprow's relationship with the Centre
Pompidou.
Box 62, Folder 9
Galerie Donguy,
Jul-Sep 1994
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding Kaprow's "Hors Limites" and the catalog for it.
Box 62, Folder 10
Galerie Donguy,
Oct-Dec 1994
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding Kaprow's "Hors Limites" and films and slides of it.
Box 63
Professional Correspondence,
1957-1997
Box 63, Folder 1
Galerie Donguy,
1995
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding the refusal of the Centre Pompidou to purchase Kaprow's paintings or environments, after having led
him to believe they would.
Box 63, Folder 2
Galerie Donguy,
1996-1997
Scope and Content Note
Regarding Kaprow's book (translated) and his scheduled talks. An introduction Kaprow wrote to Donguy's computer program for
writing poetry.
Box 63, Folder 3
Gutenberg Museum,
1987
Scope and Content Note
Letters from the museum curator.
Box 63, Folder 4
Gutman, Walter,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Kaprow applying to Gutman Foundation for assistance in publishing his book,
Assemblage, Environments, and Happenings.
Box 63, Folder 5
John Gibson Commissions,
1969-1972
Scope and Content Note
Kaprow's correspondence with his "representative" John Gibson with photographs of Kaprow pieces promoted by the gallery.
Box 63, Folder 6
Gualco, Caterina,
1997-1998
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence with this dealer from Genoa and Kaprow, with color snapshots of Kaprow at events she arranged.
Box 63, Folder 7
Journal of Education,
1983
Scope and Content Note
Letter fragment from the editor(?) suggesting topics for discussion in a Kaprow article (?)
Box 63, Folder 8
Harper & Row,
1968
Scope and Content Note
A letter indicating interest in future Kaprow book project.
Box 63, Folder 9
Headlands Center for the Arts,
1991
Scope and Content Note
Letter arranging panel discussion.
Box 63, Folder 10
Holt, Nancy, ,
1984 1987
Scope and Content Note
Brief letters, one from Kaprow, one from Holt, regarding Holt's sculpture and that of Coryl Crane.
Box 63, Folder 11
Hyde Gallery, Grossmont College,
1997
Scope and Content Note
Letter thanking Kaprow for drawings used in exhibition.
Box 63, Folder 12
Institute for Transcendental Studies,
1981
Scope and Content Note
Letter thanking Kaprow for his help in a recent workshop, with other materials.
Box 63, Folder 13
Intermedia,
1967-1968
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence with John Brockman, director of the program sponsored by New York State Council of the Arts.
Box 63, Folder 14
International Drama Conference,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Conference information.
Box 63, Folder 15
International Seminar on the Arts,
1987
Scope and Content Note
Information about the Warsaw event.
Box 63, Folder 16
Kramer, Hilton,
1957
Scope and Content Note
Letters from Kaprow complaining that his work was not reviewed as he had been assured it would be.
Box 63, Folder 17
Long Beach Museum,
1984-1985
Scope and Content Note
Letters and material from the museum regarding their two part video retrospective, featuring a video of one of Kaprow's activities.
Box 63, Folder 18
Mapping the Terrain,
1992
Scope and Content Note
Letters from Suzanne Lacy, editor of a collection of articles on public art, with ms. and clippings.
Box 64
Professional Correspondence,
1957-1998
Box 64, Folder 1
Artomatic,
1987
Scope and Content Note
Letter to Kaprow.
Box 64, Folder 2
Mills College,
1995
Scope and Content Note
Letter to Kaprow regarding John Cage concert.
Box 64, Folder 3
Morgan, Robert,
1978
Scope and Content Note
Letters regarding Morgan's dissertation on conceptual art.
Box 64, Folder 4
Museum Ludwig, Köln,
1980-1984
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence between Kaprow and Karl Ruhrberg and others regarding a retrospective that was to have included Kaprow's work,
but due to a series of misunderstandings and betrayals did not take place.
Box 64, Folder 5
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale,
1989
Scope and Content Note
Letter regarding arrangements for Kaprow's lecture and visit.
Box 64, Folder 6
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles,
1991-1992
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and other materials related to Kaprow lectures on MOCA exhibitions. See also Project Files, Box 34, for lengthy
correspondence regarding Kaprow's reinvention of "Yard" for MOCA's "Out of Actions" exhbition.
Box 64, Folder 7
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
1983-1998
Scope and Content Note
Scattered correspondence, regarding a Video Art retrospective (1983), MOMA's severe editing of Kaprow's Warhol piece (1989)
and the receipt of a Pollack photograph (1998).
Box 64, Folder 8
National Endowment for the Arts,
1986
Scope and Content Note
Letter thanking Kaprow for serving on Inter-Arts Program panel.
Box 64, Folder 9
New Museum, New York,
1986
Scope and Content Note
Thank you letter to Kaprow.
Box 64, Folder 10
New York Times,
1957
Scope and Content Note
Letter from Kaprow to Dore Ashton responding to her review of his painting exhibition.
Box 64, Folder 11
New York Times Sunday Magazine,
1963
Scope and Content Note
Kaprow letter to the editor responding to Kenneth Tynan piece critical of Kaprow's work.
Box 64, Folder 12
New York University,
1989
Scope and Content Note
Letter and other materials regarding panel on '60s art that Kaprow took part in.
Box 64, Folder 13
Newport Harbor Art Museum,
1987
Scope and Content Note
Letter requesting Kaprow donation.
Box 64, Folder 14
Other Ways,
1969-1972
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence between Kaprow's lawyer, Kaprow, and his colleague Kohl regarding copyright issues generated by their joint
project, Other Ways. See also Project files, 1969, and Teaching files, Box 57, folder 5.
Box 64, Folder 15
Pasadena Art Museum,
1972-1973
Scope and Content Note
Memoranda and minutes of meeting of the museum's Board of Trustees, of which Kaprow was a member. A few handwritten notes
by Kaprow regarding art education programs or reforms.
Box 64, Folder 16
Mark Patsfall Graphics,
1994
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding portfolio to benefit Multimedia Mediale, with graphic by Kaprow.
Box 64, Folder 17
PERF '94,
1994
Scope and Content Note
Letter arranging conference where Kaprow was keynote speaker.
Box 64, Folder 18
Philadelphia Museum of Art,
1996
Scope and Content Note
Letter regarding videotape Kaprow lent for exhibition.
Box 65
Professional Correspondence,
1962-1994
Box 65, Folder 1
Remer, Michael,
1967-1968
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence between Remer (Kaprow's lawyer), Kaprow, and various other parties, regarding the publication of the LP recording,
"How to Make a Happening."
Box 65, Folder 2
Rosenberg, Harold,
1968
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding the relevance of Rosenberg's theory of action painting for Kaprow's work.
Box 65, Folder 3
San Diego Museum,
1987
Scope and Content Note
Letters from the museum regarding Kaprow's lecture for the Docent Lecture Series.
Box 65, Folder 4
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture,
1984
Scope and Content Note
Letter regarding award ceremony and catalog.
Box 65, Folder 5
Solway, Carl,
1986-1988
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence regarding exhibition in honor of John Cage, Solway's attempt to sell Kaprow's work, and the loss of two Kaprow
prints in a fire.
Box 65, Folder 6
Something Else Press,
1966
Scope and Content Note
Message to Kaprow reporting that his article "Some Recent Happenings," is being assigned in a course at Syracuse.
Box 65, Folder 7
Sommerakademie für Bildende Kunst,
1983-1984
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and papers regarding Kaprow's course for this summer school.
Box 65, Folder 8
Tillim, Sidney,
1962
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence between Kaprow and Tillim, regarding the critic's comments about Kaprow's work.
Box 65, Folder 9
Time Magazine,
1966
Scope and Content Note
Letter regarding
Time coverage of a Kaprow happening ("Gas"?).
Box 65, Folder 10
Timken Art Gallery,
1984
Scope and Content Note
Thank you note.
Box 65, Folder 11
Turner/Krull Gallery,
1993
Scope and Content Note
Letter regarding gallery exhibition "Action/Performance and the Photograph."
Box 65, Folder 12
TV2000,
1980
Scope and Content Note
Requesting Kaprow film for West German television.
Box 65, Folder 13
University of New Mexico, ,
1983 1987
Scope and Content Note
Thank you letters to Kaprow.
Box 65, Folder 14
Vice-Versand,
1971-1972
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence between Kaprow and Wolfgang Feelisch regarding plans to install a reinvention of "Yard" at an autobahn crossroad.
Box 65, Folder 15
Video Data Bank,
1979-1980
Scope and Content Note
Request for a video interview with Kaprow, with other materials.
Box 65, Folder 16
Walker Art Center,
1967
Scope and Content Note
Letter of congratulations on Kaprow's book.
Box 65, Folder 17
Wexner Center,
1994
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and other materials relating to the exhibition,
In the Spirit of Fluxus.
Box 65, Folder 18
Zabriskie Gallery,
1987-1988
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and Kaprow drafts relating to the exhibition "Photographic" and another on collage at the Paris Gallery.
Box 65, Folder 19
Zen Center, Los Angeles,
1982
Scope and Content Note
Letter from Kaprow to Gempo Merzel regarding a Sales Training Seminar Merzel has proposed.
Box 65, Folder 20
Zwirner Gallery,
1993
Scope and Content Note
Letter and materials regarding a video exhibition.
Box 65, Folder 26
Letters pulled from serials,
1959-1993
Series VIII.
Artists' Files,
1955-1996
Physical Description:
2.5 lin. ft. plus 1 ref3712 roll
Scope and Content Note
This series comprises Kaprow's correspondence with fellow artists and material, objects, or photographs the artists sent to
him. Files are arranged alphabetically by the artists' last names.
Box 66
Artists' Files,
1959-1996
Box 66, Folder 1
Acconci, Vito,
1969-1970
Scope and Content Note
Acconci's curriculum vita and performance notes, along with black and white photographs of several activities he performed
while represented by John Gibson Commissions. Photo credit: Bill Beckley; Joseph Carlucci; Kathy Dillon; Bernadette Meyer;
Betsy Jackson.
Box 66, Folder 2
Anderson, Eric,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Photocopies of typed instructions for various operas and opuses, with three drawings.
Box 66, Folder 3
Antin, David,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
A printed booklet in the shape of a bookmark containing a story entitled "Three Musics for Two Voices."
Box 66, Folder 4
Baldessari, John,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Black and white snapshots of paintings.
Box 66, Folder 5
Blesh, Rudi,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Letter from Kaprow to Blesh, explaining the difficulties of doing his kind of art.
Box 66, Folder 6
Blau, Herbert,
1970-1971
Scope and Content Note
Ensemble exercises used in Cal Arts class.
Box 66, Folder 7
Brecht, George,
1960-1962
Scope and Content Note
Events/activities printed on individual cards or sheets of paper.
Box 66, Folder 8
Brown, Robert Delford,
1992
Scope and Content Note
Book entitled
Ikons of the First National Church of the Exquisite Panic, Inc., a parody of a fundamentalist church brochure, published by Francesco Conz.
Box 66, Folder 9
Brown, J.,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Photocopy of pages of a booklet entitled
Vanished Values.
Box 66, Folder 10
Celender, Don,
1971
Scope and Content Note
Artball; a collection of cards featuring 20th century artists as baseball players, with an example of each artist's work on
the verso of the card bearing his picture.
Box 66, Folder 11
Comiter, Alvin,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Black and white photographs by Comiter.
Box 66, Folder 12
Corita, Sister Mary,
1964
Scope and Content Note
Brochure of the artist's work; newspaper clippings featuring one of her pieces.
Box 66, Folder 13
Duchamp, Marcel,
1962
Scope and Content Note
A letter offering to recommend Kaprow for a Copley Foundation Award; another letter letting Kaprow know that the Copleys would
like to attend Kaprow's upcoming Happening.
Box 66, Folder 14
Duchamp, Teeny,
1987
Scope and Content Note
Letter from Teeny regretting not having been able to contribute to a tribute to John Cage organized by Kaprow, with response
from Kaprow.
Box 66, Folder 15
De Jong, Constance,
1976
Scope and Content Note
Two booklets, comprising Book Three and Book Five of the
Complete Works of Constance De Jong.
Box 66, Folder 16
Fabrizio, Margaret,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
A typewritten ms. of a Happening entitled "Dual Gallant" and dedicated to Kaprow, enclosed in hand-printed folder.
Box 66, Folder 17
Filliou, Robert,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Two typewritten, photocopied pieces by the artist.
Box 66, Folder 18
Forti, Simone,
1987
Scope and Content Note
Note from Kaprow.
Box 66, Folder 19
Fuller, Buckminster,
1969
Scope and Content Note
Published copy of Fuller's
World Game Report and various clippings relating to it.
Box 66, Folder 20
Fussener, Howard,
1961
Scope and Content Note
Letter to Kaprow.
Box 66, Folder 21
Gutai Theater,
1970
Scope and Content Note
Poster of Gutai Art Festival and black and white captioned snapshots of performances.
Box 66, Folder 22
Hainke, Wolfgang,
1995-1996
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence between Kaprow and Hainke; color snapshots of an exhibition of Hainke's work, with announcement.
Box 66, Folder 23
Harrell, John and Mary,
1968
Scope and Content Note
Communicating the Gospel Today: a box with cards and booklets illustrating the art scene of that time.
Box 66, Folder 24
Grooms, Red,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Two painted posters and one negative.
Box 66, Folder 25
Higgins, Dick,
1959
Scope and Content Note
"A Black 'n White Book," by Higgins, a collection of smudges on paper put in mylar and bound in paper folder.
Box 66, Folder 26
Higgins, Dick,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Two copies of a typewritten ms. by Higgins entitled "Outline of a Social Theory of Art Today."
Box 66, Folder 27
Higgins, Dick,
1960
Scope and Content Note
Two typewritten term papers by Higgins, one on Picasso and one on Gertrude Stein.
Box 67
Artists' Files,
1960-1987
Box 67, Folder 1
Higgins, Dick,
1960-1965
Scope and Content Note
A thick file of material by Higgins, including performance pieces, plays "non-performance pieces," "performing graphics,"
and concerts.
Box 67, Folder 2
Higgins, Dick,
1960-1967
Scope and Content Note
A selection of performance pieces and writings, including "Some Graphis Mirrors," and "The Tart."
Box 67, Folder 3
Higgins, Dick,
1961-1963
Scope and Content Note
Typewritten poetry manuscripts by Higgins.
Box 67, Folder 4
Higgins, Dick,
1965-1966
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence and a typewritten ms. relating to Wolf Vostell.
Box 67, Folder 5
Higgins, Dick,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Poetry, performance pieces, etc.
Box 67, Folder 6
Higgins, Dick,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
"The Cork Industry," typewritten ms., probably not by Higgins.
Box 67, Folder 7
Higgins, Dick,
1966
Scope and Content Note
Note and mss. by Geoff and Bici Hendricks
Box 67, Folder 8
Higgins, Dick,
1966
Scope and Content Note
Material relating to Ben Vautier, including issues 9 and 10 of
Tout, chapters of his book
Rien.
Box 67, Folder 9
Higgins, Dick,
1966
Scope and Content Note
Two letters from Marshall McLuhan to Higgins.
Box 67, Folder 10
Higgins, Dick,
1966
Scope and Content Note
Letter from George Segal to Higgins, with poems by Higgins.
Box 67, Folder 11
Higgins, Dick,
1966-1971
Scope and Content Note
Issues of
the something else NEWSLETTER that feature pieces by Higgins.
Box 67, Folder 12
Higgins, Dick,
1966
Scope and Content Note
Letters from Higgins to K.G. Hulten.
Box 67, Folder 13
Higgins, Dick,
1966
Scope and Content Note
Draft of Higgins'
The Fabulous World of Typhoon-Willie
Box 67, Folder 14
Higgins, Dick,
1970
Scope and Content Note
Published version of above ms. in German.
Box 67, Folder 15
Higgins, Dick,
1971
Scope and Content Note
Typewritten ms. by Higgins, "City with all the Angles," a radio play.
Box 67, Folder 16
Higgins, Dick,
1976
Scope and Content Note
Two copies of typewritten ms. entitled "Two Essays Written on May 16, 1976."
Box 67, Folder 17
Higgins, Dick,
1978
Scope and Content Note
2 posters, several postcards, and one book by Higgins entitled
What Are Legends.
Box 67, Folder 18
Higgins, Dick,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Fragment of a typewritten ms. by Higgins entitled
A Book About Love and War and Death.
Box 67, Folder 19
Higgins, Dick,
1985-1987
Scope and Content Note
Many typewritten letters from Higgins to Kaprow, one note from Kaprow, a ms. by Higgins on John Cage, and a clipping.
Box 68
Artists' Files,
1960-1992
Box 68, Folder 1
Jensen, Alfred,
1961-1975
Scope and Content Note
Detailed, forthcoming letters from Jensen to Kaprow regarding Kaprow's article on his work, his friendship with Mark Rothko,
and other art-related matters.
Box 68, Folder 2
Huebler, Douglas,
1969
Scope and Content Note
Description of site sculpture project by Huebler.
Box 68, Folder 3
Johnson, Ray,
1966-1992
Scope and Content Note
Announcements and photocopies of Johnson's pieces; art object (rubber band piece- deteriorated).
Box 68, Folder 4
Judson Gallery,
1960
Scope and Content Note
Program and material relating to "Ray-Gun."
Box 68, Folder 5
Kaprow, Susan,
1986
Scope and Content Note
Announcements and a letter from the artist unrelated to Allan Kaprow.
Box 68, Folder 6
Kirby, Michael,
1970
Scope and Content Note
Photographs printed on cardboard to be folded into cube boxes.
Box 68, Folder 7
Kaufman, Irving,
1961
Scope and Content Note
Postcard from Kaufman to Kaprow.
Box 68, Folder 8
Kantor, Tadeuz,
1965-1967
Scope and Content Note
Thick file of writings, published booklets, and journal (in Polish).
Box 68, Folder 9
Klintberg, Bengt af,
1974
Scope and Content Note
Publication by the artist "The Forest Diver."
Box 68, Folder 10
Knízák, Milan,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Thick file of material, including letters, writings, small art objects such as a photo accordion book and paper hats, and
photo documentation of an activity.
Box 68, Folder 11
Knízák, Milan,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Letters to Kaprow with mss.
Box 68, Folder 12
Knízák, Milan,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Handmade scrapbook.
Box 68, Folder 13
Koren, Shlomo,
1978
Scope and Content Note
Color photograph of environment by the artist.
Box 69
Artists' Files,
1955-1987
Box 69, Folder 1
Lacy, Suzanne,
1971-1978
Scope and Content Note
Limited edition photo book by the artist; photo/postcard to Kaprow.
Box 69, Folder 2
Lebel, Jean-Jacques,
1964
Scope and Content Note
Letters from Lebel, posters, brochures, clippings, drawings.
Box 69, Folder 3
Lucier, Alvin,
1965
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence with Kaprow; artist's statement about his "Music for Solo Performer."
Box 69, Folder 4
Minujin, Marta,
1966
Scope and Content Note
Press release, clippings, poster, black and white photographs documenting Minujin's part in the three country event she collaborated
in with Kaprow and Vostell.
Box 69, Folder 5
McElroy, Robert,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten note regarding a slide Kaprow used in a book.
Box 69, Folder 6
Neuhaus, Max,
1971-1976
Scope and Content Note
Photocopies of project proposals, clippings, brochures and posters by the artist.
Box 69, Folder 7
Oldenburg, Claes,
1960-1961
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence documenting the decline of the friendship between Kaprow and Oldenburg.
Box 69, Folder 8
Oliveros, Pauline,
1978-1981
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten account of a dream featuring Kaprow; material for UC San Diego class.
Box 69, Folder 9
Ono, Yoko,
1987
Scope and Content Note
Friendly letter from Kaprow.
Box 69, Folder 10
Paik, Nam June,
1962-1986
Scope and Content Note
Brochure, clippings, poster, letter to Kaprow, slides.
Box 69, Folder 11
Richter, Hans,
1963
Scope and Content Note
Two postcard size collages with notes to Kaprow.
Box 69, Folder 12
Richter, Horace,
1959
Scope and Content Note
Fragment of photocopied letter asking for contributions to the Allan Kaprow Research Fund.
Box 69, Folder 13
Rauschenberg, Robert,
1964-1965
Scope and Content Note
Two black and white photographs of Rauschenberg performances. One unidentified color photograph. Photo credit: Elisabeth Novick;
Hans Malmberg.
Box 69, Folder 14
Rion, René,
1981
Scope and Content Note
Photograph of environment by the artist.
Box 69, Folder 15
Sherk, Bonnie,
1981
Scope and Content Note
Clippings about the conceptual artist.
Box 69, Folder 16
Stewart, Sherry,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
A booklet of the artist's photos.
Box 69, Folder 17
Stockhausen, Karlheinz,
1955
Scope and Content Note
Notes on electronic sound systems, plans for the first synthesizer, hand drawn graphs.
Box 69, Folder 18
Tenney, James,
1971
Scope and Content Note
Scores for two pieces.
Box 69, Folder 19
Tyler, Richard,
1960
Scope and Content Note
Publications from Uranian Press.
Box 70
Artists' Files,
1960-1993
Box 70, Folder 1
Uranian Press,
1965-1977
Scope and Content Note
Publications from the press.
Box 70, Folder 2
Vautier, Ben,
1960-1993
Scope and Content Note
Various printed pieces, photograph, one issue of
Real Bullshit, of which Vautier was co-editor.
Box 70, Folder 3
Vostell, Wolf,
1960-1965
Scope and Content Note
A variety of pieces on paper by the artist, letter to Kaprow, clippings, photographs, brochures. Typewritten manuscript co-written
by Kaprow, entitled "The Art of the Happening."
Box 70, Folder 4
Vostell, Wolf,
1962-1966
Scope and Content Note
A variety of materials by the artist, including drawings, writings, published booklets, letters to Kaprow (some written on
the verso of photographs of happenings), posters, clippings, issue of
Book (May 1966).
Box 70, Folder 5
Vostell, Wolf,
1963-1064
Scope and Content Note
Scores for Happenings and photographs and negatives of Happenings. See also Oversize roll 1.
Box 70, Folder 6
Watts, Bob,
1963
Scope and Content Note
Materials regarding the Yam Festival, created by Watts and Brecht.
Box 70, Folder 7
Whitman, Robert,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
One photograph of a sculpture.
Box 70, Folder 8
Zaj group,
1966
Scope and Content Note
Posters and printed matter about the group and their events.
Box 70, Folder 9
Various artists,
1958
Scope and Content Note
Work under the collective title "City."
Box 70, Folder 10
Various artists,
1969
Scope and Content Note
Student proposals in project class at Nova Scotia College.
Box 70, Folder 11
Unidentified,
1962
Scope and Content Note
Letter sent to Kaprow and other artists by unknown correspondent regarding Fluxus exhibition and publication.
Box 70, Folder 12
Unidentified,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
a pencil drawing; a rubbing.
Series IX.
Personal,
1946-1996
Physical Description:
3 lin. ft.
Scope and Content Note
This series includes ref3712 and comprises awards and honors Kaprow received, and photographs of Kaprow by himself, with family,
or with friends. A highlight are the beautiful photographs by Julian Wasser of Kaprow at home.
Box 71
Awards and Curriculum Vitae,
1949-1986
Box 71, Folder 1
Copley Foundation Award,
1962
Box 71, Folder 2
La Guardia Memorial Award,
1974
Box 71, Folder 3
Skowhegan Gold Medal,
1975
Box 71, Folder 4
Skowhegan Gold Medal,
1982
Scope and Content Note
Kaprow presents gold medal to Miriam Schapiro.
Box 71, Folder 5
NEA- U.S./Japan Exchange Fellowship,
1986
Box 71, Folder 6
Miscellaneous exhibition records and cv's, ca.
1949-1980
Scope and Content Note
For current CV, please see research file 980063 in the repository.
Box 72
Photographs and cards,
1946-1996
Box 72, Folder 1
Photographs of Tom Mix Monument,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Monument dedicated to Kaprow's childhood idol.
Box 72, Folder 2
Family momentos, ,
1949 n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Holiday card made of tin; 45 rpm recording of Happy Birthday made for Kaprow's father.
Box 72, Folder 3
Handmade cards,
1946
Scope and Content Note
Cards Kaprow made for his father.
Box 72, Folder 4
Addresses of friends,
n.d.
Box 72, Folder 5
Photographs of Kaprow,
ca.1950-ca.1970
Scope and Content Note
Black and white photographs of Kaprow with friends and family, including M. Lowe, Wolf Vostell, Ray Johnson. Photo credit:
Walt Silver; Peter Moore; Morris Slavin; Ron Batzdorff; Ted Tessler; Lisl Steiner; Harry Shunk; Charles Reynolds.
Box 72, Folder 6
Photographs of Kaprow,
1967
Scope and Content Note
Portraits by Julian Wasser for
Life of Kaprow by himself and with first wife Vaughn Rachel and children.
Box 72, Folder 7
Photographs of Kaprow, ca.
1970-1996
Scope and Content Note
Mostly black and white photographs of Kaprow by himself or with family and friends, including Nam June Paik. Photo credit:
Jlona Jeismann; John Waggaman; shunk-kender; Karin Mack; Stephanie Rancou.
Box 73-105a
Series X.
Films, Video and Audio Tapes,
1957-1995
Physical Description:
22.25 linear feet
Scope and Content Note
Audio visual materials are unavailable until reformatted; use copies are indicated when available.
Box 73-77
Audio cassettes,
1973-1995
Scope and Content Note
Note that original cassettes C23 (bad tape), C62 (blank) and C89 (duplicate) were not tranferred by Kirby or reformatted.
C1 - Air Condition,
1973
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (14 min.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. Activity (Happening) at Cal Arts, "Tape 1, PNO 1" - on original inventory.
Use copy available.
C2 - Loss,
1973
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (24 min. 7 sec.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. "Tape - PNO 2/3," on original inventory.
Use copy available.
C3 - 2nd Routine,
1974
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (26 min., 46 min.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. With Linda Bastian; Note: Allan believes this is from "2nd Routine"
sponsored by the D'ARC Gallery, NY. "Tape 1 - PNO 4/5," on original inventory.
Use copy available.
C4 - Rates of Exchange,
1975
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (8 min., 7 min.) With Mickiko and Charlemagne Palestine, "Tape 2 - PNO 1/2," on original inventory.
C5 - Rates of Exchange,
1975 Mar. 22
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette of 2 (31 min., 30 min.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. With Tim Y. "Tape 2 - PNO 3/4," on original inventory.
C6 - Rates of Exchange,
1975 Mar. 22
Scope and Content Note
2nd cassette of 2 (5 min.), 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. With Tim Y. "Tape 2 - PNO 5" on original inventory.
C7 - Rates of Exchange,
1975 Mar. 22
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (3 min.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. Sylvia and Stanley reading, includes note from "S"; "Tape 2 - PNO 6" on original
inventory.
C8 [unknown],
1975
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (31 min., 31 min.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. Side A: "Tape 2 - PNO 7"; Side B: "Tape 3- PNO 1" Labeled "A: male and
female" on original inventory.
C9 - Rates of Exchange,
1975
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette of 4 (18 min.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. "Tape 3 - PNO 2," on original inventory.
Use copy available.
C10 - Rates of Exchange,
1975
Scope and Content Note
2nd sound cassette of 4 (8 min.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. "Tape 3 - PNO 3," on original inventory.
Use copy available.
C11 - Rates of Exchange,
1975
Scope and Content Note
3rd sound cassette of 4 (6 min.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. Labeled: "person unknown, male." "Tape 3 - PNO 4," on original inventory.
Use copy available.
C12 - Rates of Exchange,
1975
Scope and Content Note
4th sound cassette of 4 (31 min., 31 min.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. Labeled "person unknown, female." "Tape 3 - PNO 5/6," on original
inventory.
Use copy available.
C13 - Rates of Exchange,
1975
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (24 min., 29 min.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. With Charlemagne Palestine and Michiko. "Tape 4 - PNO 1/2," on original
inventory.
C14 - Rates of Exchange,
1975
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (31 min., 7 min.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. With Victoria, labeled "A1". "Tape 4 - PNO 3/4," on original inventory.
C15 - Rates of Exchange,
1975
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (21 min., 30 min.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. With Frantisek or J.P., labeled "A2"; "Tape 4- PNO 5/ Tape 5 PNO 1"
on original inventory.
C16 - Rates of Exchange,
1975
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (29 min., 31 min.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. With Michael, labeled as "A3". "Tape 5 - PNO 2/3," on original inventory.
C17 - Rates of Exchange,
1975
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (7 min.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. With Max, labeled as "A4". "Tape 5 - PNO 4," on original inventory.
C18 - Rates of Exchange,
1975
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (30 min., 31 min.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. Baecker and Kaprow, labeled as "A5". "Tape 6 - PNO 1/2," on original
inventory.
C19 - Rates of Exchange,
1975
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette of 2 (31 min.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. With Marcia Tucker, labeled "A6". "Tape 6 - PNO 3," on original inventory.
[2nd cassette not found, perhaps C8?] See Peter Kirby's inventory.
C20 - Rates of Exchange,
1975
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (32 min., 32 min.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. Kaprow to Alanna, labeled "A7". "Tape 7 - PNO 1/2," on original inventory.
C21 - Rates of Exchange,
1975
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (27 min., 37 min.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. With Antonio,labeled as "A8". "Tape 6 - PNO 4/5," on original inventory.
C22 - Rates of Exchange,
1975
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (31 min., 30 min.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. Kaprow and Inge Baecker, labeled as "A9". "Tape 7- PNO 3," on original
inventory.
C23 - Rates of Exchange; Walking ,
1975 n.d.
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette, 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. side 1: Rates of Exchange, with Michuko. side 2: Walking, date unidentified. Bad tape.
NOT TRANSFERRED/NOT REFORTMATTED.
C24 - Time Pieces,
1975
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (3 min.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. "Tape 8 -PNO 1," on original inventory.
C25 - Artpark,
1976
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (60 min., 60 min.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. Labeled "final meeting." "Tape 8 -PNO 2/3," on original inventory.
Use copy available.
C26 - Frameworks,
1976
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (40 min. 62 min.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. With Kaprow, Deeks, and Peters at the Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles. "Tape
9-PNO 1/2," on original inventory.
C27 - Satisfaction,
1976 Apr 29
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (62 min.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. Labeled "1st night." "Tape 10-PNO 1/2/3," on original inventory.
C28 - 7 Kinds of Sympathy,
1976?
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette of 2 (38 min.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. Discussion, after participating in piece, using video (made by Peter Kirby
and Allan Kaprow) as guide. Participants: Peter Kirby, Allan Kaprow Nancy Buchanan, Sylvia and Jerry Simpson, and Vaughn Rachel
at Video Transitions, Hollywood. Activity took place in 1976 in Vienna and Italy. "Tape 10 PNO 4," on original inventory.
C29 - 7 Kinds of Sympathy, ,
1976? 1977?
Scope and Content Note
2nd sound cassette of 2 (46 min., 23 min.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. Discussion, after participating in piece, using video as a guide.
Participants: Peter Kirby, Nancy Buchanan, Sylvia and Jerry Simpson, Allan Kaprow, and Vaughn Rachel at Video Transitions,
Hollywood. Actual piece is "7 Kinds of Sympathy. "Tape 11-PNO 1/2," on original inventory.
C30 - Exercises and Tom Peeping,
1977 Nov. 15
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (56 min.; 60 min.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. With Kaprow, Bruce and Carol.
Side 1: (56 min.) "Tape 11-PNO 3";
Side 2: (60 min.) "Tape 12-PNO 1/2," on original inventory.
C31 - Exercises and Tom Peeping,
1978 Mar. 2
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (44 min.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. Labeled "Kaprow Piece - La Jolla," with Kaprow, Carol, and Bruce. "Tape 12 -
PNO 3," on original inventory.
C32 - Carol's Piece,
1978 Mar. 9
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (46 min., 46 min.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. Allan doesn't remember the title of this Activity. It may be part of
"Small exercise I," "Small Exercise 2," or "Mantra." [About noticing everyday events walking around.] "Tape 13 -PNO 1/2" on
original inventory.
C33 - Kaprow piece at Bruce Reynolds' house with Moira Roth and Coryl Crane,
1978
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (46 min., 46 min.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. Allan doesn't remember the title of this Activity. It may be part of
"Small Exercise I," "Small Exercise 2," or "Mantra." [About sensing the presence of another person.] "Tape 14-PNO 1/2," on
original inventory.
Use copy available.
C34 - Standards,
1978
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (30 min.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. With David Roger and Martha Sanford. "Standards" cassettes were all made in 1978
at the University of Iowa, Cedar Falls. The Activity booklet, "Standards" was partially created from prearranged situations
and documentation of the actual Activity / Event. "Tape 14-PNO 3," on original inventory.
Use copy available.
C35 - Standards,
1978
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (19 min.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. With Joni Sauke and Carl Petersen. This tape is also labeled "Pre-Standards Sheet
Work." "Standards" cassettes were all made in 1978 at the University of Iowa, Cedar Falls. The Activity booklet, "Standards"
was partially created from prearranged situations and documentation of the actual Activity / Event. "Tape 15-PNO 1," on original
inventory.
C36 - Standards,
1978
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (45 min., 37 min.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. Interpretations with Sanford Shaman and Bill Witt. "Standards" cassettes
were all made in 1978 at the University of Iowa, Cedar Falls. The Activity booklet, "Standards" was partially created from
prearranged situations and documentation of the actual Activity / Event. "Tape 15-PNO 2/3," on original inventory.
C37 - Standards,
1978 Dec. 10
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (41 min., 44 min.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. Review #2. "Standards" cassettes were all made in 1978 at the University
of Iowa, Cedar Falls. The Activity booklet, "Standards" was partially created from prearranged situations and documentation
of the actual Activity / Event. "Tape 16-PNO 1/2," on original inventory.
C38 - Standards,
1978 Dec
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (40 min., 37 min.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. With Bruce and Pat. "Standards" cassettes were all made in 1978 at the
University of Iowa, Cedar Falls. The Activity booklet, "Standards" was partially created from prearranged situations and documentation
of the actual Activity / Event.
Side 1: (40 min.) "Tape 16-PNO 3";
Side 2: (37 min.) "Tape 17-PNO 1" on original inventory.
C39 - Standards,
1978 Dec
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (45 min., 45 min.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. Final group meeting. "Standards" cassettes were all made in 1978 at
the University of Iowa, Cedar Falls. The Activity booklet, "Standards" was partially created from prearranged situations and
documentation of the actual Activity / Event.
Side 1: (45 min.) "Tape 17-PNO 2";
Side 2: (45 min.) "Tape 18-PNO 1," on original inventory.
C40 - Standards,
1978
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (34 min., 16 min.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. With Carol Schaaf and Kaprow. This cassette is labeled Jan-Feb. 1979;
according to Allan, this is incorrect. "Standards" cassettes were all made in 1978 at the University of Iowa, Cedar Falls.
The Activity booklet, "Standards" was partially created from prearranged situations and documentation of the actual Activity
/ Event. "Tape 18-PNO 2/3/4," on original inventory.
C41 - Standards,
1978
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (41 min.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. "Standards" cassettes were all made in 1978 at the University of Iowa, Cedar
Falls. The Activity booklet, "Standards" was partially created from prearranged situations and documentation of the actual
Activity / Event. "Tape 19-PNO 1," on original inventory.
C42 - Toothbrushing Piece,
1978
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (31 min., 31 min.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. With Kaprow, Carol Mansfield, and Bruce Reynolds, La Jolla, CA. Also
labeled "meeting following piece, Venice, CA." "Tape 19 - PNO 2/3," on original inventory.
C43 - Standards,
1978
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (45 min., 19 min.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. "Tape 20-PNO 1/2," on original inventory.
C44 - Standards,
1978
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (40 min.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. With Rieken/Ploog. Cassette is labeled Jan.-Feb. 1979 - according to Allan this
is incorrect. "Tape 20 - PNO 3," on original inventory.
C45 - 2 Appointments,
1978 Jan. 29
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (17 min., 45 min.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in.
Side 1: (17 min.) "preliminary intro";
Side 2: (45 min.) "review."
"Tape 21-PNO 1; Tape 21-PNO 2," on original inventory.
C46 - 2 Appointments,
1978 Jan. 29
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (34 min.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. Side 3. "Tape 21-PNO 3," on original inventory.
C47 - Ups/Downs, (What's Cooking II),
1978 Apr. 22
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (45 min., 45 min.)
Labeled "What's Cooking II," this was arranged for the "What's Cooking Festival II," Center for Music Experiment, UCSD, La
Jolla, CA. "Tape 22 -PNO 1/2," on original inventory.
C48 - Carol Mansfield Piece,
1978 Jan. 19
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (7 min.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. 2nd tape. "Tape 22-PNO 3," on original inventory. Note from inventory: Allan is
unsure what Activity this recording documents. Perhaps "Small Exercises I," "Small Exercises 2" or "Mantra."
C49 - Carol's Reflection Piece,
1978 July 17
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (45 min., 45 min.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. First half of pre-recordings. "Tape 23-PNO 1; Tape 23-PNO 2," on original
inventory. Note from inventory: Allan thinks this recording is part of "Hello/Goodbye."
C50 - Carol's Reflection Piece,
1978 July 17
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (38 min.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. Second half of pre-recordings. "Tape 24-PNO 1," on original inventory. Note from
inventory: Allan thinks this recording is part of "Hello/Goodbye."
C51 - Carol Mansfield Piece,
1978 Jan. 19
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (45 min., 43 min.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. "Tape 24-PNO 2 and 3," on original inventory. Allan is unsure what Activity
this recording documents. Perhaps "Small Exercises I," "Small Exercises 2" or "Mantra."
C52 - Blindsight,
1979 Mar. 10
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (30 min., 31 min.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. "Tape 25-PNO 1/2," on original inventory. Note on inventory: Allan is
unsure what Activity this recording documents. Perhaps "Small Exercises I," "Small Exercises 2" or "Mantra."
Use copy available.
C53 - Blindsight,
1979
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (30 min., 3 min.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. "Tape 25-PNO 3/4," on original inventory. Note from inventory: Allan
is unsure what Activity this recording documents. Perhaps "Small Exercises I," "Small Exercises 2" or "Mantra."
Use copy available.
C54 - Exercise; [Meyer's piece],
1980 May
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (26 min., 47 min.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in.
Side 1: Exercise (26 min.) Per note in inventory, "Exercise" may be "Small Exercises I." "Small Exercises 2" or "Mantra."
"Tape 25-PNO 5" on original inventory.
Side 2: AK talks followed by participants in "The Experience of Giving and Taking," (47 min.); not an AK piece, "This is Meyer's
piece." "Tape 26-PNO 1," on original inventory.
C55 - Piece for Pierre Restany,
1981 May 14
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (46 min., 46 min.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. A discussion after a performance in Paris.
Side 1: (46 min.)"Tape 26-PNO 2;
Side 2: (46 min.), "Tape 27-PNO 1," on original inventory.
C56 - Richard Hamilton Piece (side A); Ludwig Thurmer Piece (side B), ,
1981 Apr. 17 1981 May 1
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (45 min., 42 min.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in.
Side A: Richard Hamilton (45 min.), "Tape 27-PNO 2";
Side B: Ludwig Thurmer (42 min.), "Tape 28-PNO 1," on original inventory.
C57 - Richard Hamilton Piece,
1981
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (13 min., 13 min.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. Allan's tape for Hamilton Piece. Richard Hamilton walking through field.
"Tape 28-PNO 2,3," on original inventory.
C58 - Robert Filliou Piece; Bicocchi Piece, ,
1981 May 21 1981 May 26
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (46 min., 45 min.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in.
Side A: (46 min.) Peyzac-le Moustier, France, "Tape 28-PNO 4";
Side B: (46 min.) Firenze, "Tape 29-PNO 1," on original inventory.
C59 - Piece for Dany Keller,
1981
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette of 2 (45 min., 47 min.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in.
Side 1: 45 min. - "Tape 29-PNO 2";
Side 2: 47 min. - "Tape 30-PNO 1," on original inventory.
C60 - Piece for Dany Keller,
1981
Scope and Content Note
2nd sound cassette of 2 (47 min.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. "Tape 30-PNO 2," on original inventory.
C61 - Piece for Shlomo and Shula Koren,
1981 May 5
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (45 min., 22 min.) Amsterdam.
Side 1: (45 min.), "Tape 30-PNO 3";
Side 2: (22 min.), "Tape 31-PNO," on original inventory.
C62 - Exercise no. 5,
1981
Scope and Content Note
Activity (Happening) for Rachel Rosenthal's workshop, "DBH" in Los Angeles. The Tape is BLANK. NOT TRANSFERRED, NOT REFORMATTED.
C63 - Piece for 80 Langton Street,
1981 Aug
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (43 min., 25 min.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. (Alternative space, San Francisco.) "Tape 31-PNO 2/3," on original inventory.
C64 - Piece for 80 Langton Street,
1981 Aug
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (47 min., 35 min.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. (Alternative space, San Francisco.) "Tape 32-PNO 1/2," on original inventory.
C65 - Moira Roth,
1982 May 14
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (46 min., 10 min.) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. Interview with Kaprow and Suzanne Lacy, "Tape 33-PNO 1/2," on original
inventory.
C66 - Allan, Suzanne and Moira at Moira's,
1983 May 9
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (33 min.?) 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. Interview: Kaprow and Suzanne Lacy interviewed by Moira Roth. "Tape 33-PNO 3/4/5,"
on original inventory.
C67 - Environments, Happenings, Fluxus, and Performance: Review, Critical Evaluation, and Prognostication,
1983 Mar. 2
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (45 min., 33 min.) Kaprow lecture at La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, "Wolf Kahn talk." Lecture series
title: Toward an understanding of issues in 20th century art. "Tape 34-PNO 1/2," on original inventory.
C68 - Wolf Kahn Talk,
1984 Jan. 11
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (46 min. 34 min.) Kaprow lecture at San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art. "Tape 35-PNO 1/2," on original
inventory.
C69 - Coryl's Birthday Piece,
1985 Dec. 2
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (47 min., 6 min.) Kaprow's piece for his second wife, Coryl Crane. "Tape 36-PNO 1/2," on original inventory.
Use copy available.
C70 - Grad Seminar #5, Art and Politics,
1985 Feb. 4
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette of 2 (63 min., 3 min.) Kaprow lecture for UCSD class.
Side 1: (63 min.), "Tape 36-PNO 3,";
Side 2: (3 min.), "Tape 37-PNO 1," on original inventory.
Use copy available.
C71 - Grad Seminar #5, Art and Politics,
1985 Feb 4
Scope and Content Note
2nd sound cassette of 2 (33 min.) Kaprow lecture for UCSD class. "Tape 37-PNO 2," on original inventory.
Use copy available.
C72 - Grad Seminar #6, Humor in Art,
1985 Feb. 11
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette of 2 (62 min., 62 min.) Kaprow lecture for UCSD class. "Tape 38-PNO 1/2," on original inventory.
Use copy available.
C73 - Grad Seminar #6, Humor in Art,
1985 Feb. 11
Scope and Content Note
2nd sound cassette of 2 (6 min.) Kaprow lecture for UCSD class. "Tape 39-PNO 1," on original inventory.
Use copy available.
C74 - Grad Seminar #7, Today's Art of Quotation,
1985 Feb. 18
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette of 3 (63 min., 59 min.) Kaprow lecture for UCSD class. "Tape 39-PNO 2/3," on original inventory.
Use copy available.
C75 - Grad Seminar #7, Today's Art of Quotation,
1985 Feb. 18
Scope and Content Note
2nd sound cassette of 3 (47 min., 47 min.) Kaprow lecture for UCSD class. "Tape 40-PNO 1/2," on original inventory.
Use copy available.
C76 - Grad Seminar #7, Today's Art of Quotation,
1985 Feb. 18
Scope and Content Note
3rd sound cassette of 3 (4 min.) Kaprow lecture for UCSD class. "Tape 40-PNO 3," on original inventory.
C77 - Grad Seminar #8, Performance,
1985 Feb. 25
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (62 min., 51 min.) Kaprow lecture for UCSD class. "Tape 41-PNO 1/2," on original inventory.
C78 - Grad Seminar #9, Criticism,
1985 Mar. 4
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (63 min., 48 min.) Kaprow lecture for UCSD class. "Tape 42-PNO 1/2," on original inventory.
C79 - Grad Seminar #10, Collaboration,
1985 Mar. 11
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette of 2 (63 min., 63 min.) Kaprow lecture for UCSD class. "Tape 43-PNO 1/2," on original inventory.
C80 - Grad Seminar #10, Collaboration,
1985 Mar. 11
Scope and Content Note
2nd sound cassette of 2 (19 min.) Kaprow lecture for UCSD class. "Tape 44-PNO 1," on original inventory.
C81 - Mills College,
1988 May 5
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (32 min., 32 min.) Kaprow lecture. "Tape 44-PNO 2/3," on original inventory.
C82 - Mills #3,
1988 May 5
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (4 min.) Kaprow lecture. "Tape 44-PNO 4," on original inventory.
C83 - Apples and Oranges,
1986 Oct. 25
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (47 min., 47 min.) "Tape 45-PNO 1/2," on original inventory.
C84 - Allan Kaprow at Penn State,
1987 Mar. 22
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (46 min., 46 min.) Kaprow lecture. "Tape 46-PNO 1/2," on original inventory.
C85 - Penn State,
1987 Mar. 21
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (31 min., 11 min.) Museum of Art lecture.
Side 1: 31 min.,"Tape 46-PNO 3";
Side 2: 11 min., "Tape 47-PNO 1," on original inventory.
C86 - Allan Kaprow with David Antin,
1990 Oct. 22
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (40 min., 43 min.) Lecture. "Tape 47-PNO 2/3," on original inventory.
C87 - Kaprow Kasseler Kunstverein,
1995 Oct. 26
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (35 min.) "Tape 48-PNO 1," on original inventory.
C88 - den Satzvon Herm Neuendorf, wiederholen DIE ABARTIGEN,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (29 min.) With Kaprow, Vostell, Paik, Saree, Albrecht d., Toche U., Hendricks, and 1 booklet (in folder in
Box). "Tape 48-PNO 2," on original inventory.
C89 - den Satzvon Herm Neuendorf, wiederholen DIE ABARTIGEN,
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (29 min.) 2nd copy of C88, above. NOT TRANSFERRED / NOT REFORMATTED.
C90 - Courtesy,
1977 Jun. 2
Scope and Content Note
1 sound cassette (15 min.) Labeled "Courtesy," this is a copy from Close Radio cassette. "Tape 48-PNO 3," on original inventory.
Box 78-85
Reel-to-reel 1/4 audiotapes,
1957-1966
R1 - attacks,
1957-1958
Scope and Content Note
1 sound tape reel (9 min.), 7 in., 1/4 in. tape. "Tape 49 - PNO 1," on original inventory. Sound material.
Use copy available (Use tape 1).
R2 - attacks,
1957-1958
Scope and Content Note
1 sound tape reel (23 min.), 7 in., 1/4 in. tape."Tape 49 - PNO 2/3/4," on original inventory. Electronic sound library materials.
Use copy available (Use tape 1).
R3 - junk-echoes-distortions,
1957-1958
Scope and Content Note
1 sound tape reel (12 min.), 7 in., 1/4 in. tape."Tape 49 - PNO 5," on original inventory. Sound material.
Use copy available (Use tape 1).
R4 - Rapid Changes,
1957-1958
Scope and Content Note
1 sound tape reel (3 min.), 5 in., 1/4 in. tape. "Tape 49 - PNO 6," on original inventory. Sound material for piece.
Use copy available (Use tape 1).
R5 - sound sources,
1957-1858
Scope and Content Note
1 sound tape reel (4 min.), 5 in., 1/4 in. tape. "Tape 49-PNO 7," on original inventory. Labelled "Poem" on reel.
Use copy available (Use tape 1).
R6 - sound sources,
1957-1958
Scope and Content Note
1 sound tape reel, 5 in., 1/4 in. tape. "Blank tape?" on original inventory. [NOT TRANSFERRED / NOT REFORMATTED.]
R7 - 18 Happenings in 6 Parts,
1958
Scope and Content Note
1 sound tape reel (7 min.), 5 in., 1/4 in. tape. "Tape 49-PNO 8," on original inventory. Note: This tape comes from one of
two Environments created at the Hansa Gallery in 1958. It was incorporated along with new sound material into 18 Happenings
in 6 Parts; Allan is unsure of the titles for the Hansa Environments in 1958.
Use copy available (Use tape 2).
R8 - 18 Happenings in 6 Parts,
1958
Scope and Content Note
1 sound tape reel (7 min.), 5 in., 1/4 in. tape. "Tape 49-PNO 9," on original inventory. Note: This tape comes from one of
two Environments created at the Hansa Gallery in 1958. It was incorporated along with new sound material into 18 Happenings
in 6 Parts; Allan is unsure of the titles for the Hansa Environments in 1958.
Use copy available (Use tape 2).
R9 - 18 Happenings in 6 Parts,
1958
Scope and Content Note
1 sound tape reel (7 min.), 5 in., 1/4 in. tape. "Tape 49-PNO 10," on original inventory. Note: This tape comes from one of
two Environments created at the Hansa Gallery in 1958. It was incorporated along with new sound material into 18 Happenings
in 6 Parts; Allan is unsure of the titles for the Hansa Environments in 1958.
Use copy available (Use tape 2).
R10 - 18 Happenings in 6 Parts,
1958
Scope and Content Note
1 sound tape reel (6 min.), 5 in., 1/4 in. tape. "Tape 49-PNO 11," on original inventory. Note: This tape comes from one of
two Environments created at the Hansa Gallery in 1958. It was incorporated along with new sound material into 18 Happenings
in 6 Parts; Allan is unsure of the titles for the Hansa Environments in 1958.
Use copy available (Use tape 2).
R11 - 18 Happenings in 6 Parts,
1958
Scope and Content Note
1 sound tape reel (20 min.), 7 in., 1/4 in. tape. "Tape 49-PNO 12," on original inventory. Sound material.
Use copy available (Use tape 2).
R12 - Show, Tape #1,
1958
Scope and Content Note
1 sound tape reel (8 min.), 4 in., 1/4 in. tape. "Tape 50-PNO 1," on original inventory.
Use copy available (Use tape 3).
R13 - Show, Tape #2,
1958
Scope and Content Note
1 sound tape reel (8 min.), 4 in., 1/4 in. tape. "Tape 50-PNO 2," on original inventory.
Use copy available (Use tape 3).
R14 - Show, Tape #3,
1958
Scope and Content Note
1 sound tape reel (8 min.), 4 in., 1/4 in. tape. "Tape 50-PNO 3," on original inventory.
Use copy available (Use tape 3).
R15 - Show, Tape #4,
1958
Scope and Content Note
1 sound tape reel (8 min.), 4 in., 1/4 in. tape. "Tape 50-PNO 4," on original inventory.
Use copy available (Use tape 3).
R16 - Show, Tape #5,
1958
Scope and Content Note
1 sound tape reel (8 min.), 4 in., 1/4 in. tape. "Tape 50-PNO 5," on original inventory.
Use copy available (Use tape 3).
R17 - intermission piece from The Killers (pt. 1),
1960 Mar.
Scope and Content Note
1 sound tape reel, 7 in., 1/4 in. tape. Reuben Gallery. Tape labeled "reel I Mar 1960 Intermission Piece 71/2 Kaprow Original."
[NOT TRANSFERRED / NOT REFORMATTED. Copy of R19, below]
R18 - intermission piece from The Killers (pt.2),
1960
Scope and Content Note
1 sound tape reel, 7 in., 1/4 in. tape. Labeled Rueben Gallery. [NOT TRANSFERRED / NOT REFORMATTED. Copy of R20, below]
R19 - intermission piece from The Killers,
1960
Scope and Content Note
1 sound tape reel (34 min.), 7 in., 1/4 in. tape. "Tape 50-PNO 6," on original inventory.
Use copy available (Use tape 4).
R20 - intermission piece from The Killers,
1960
Scope and Content Note
1 sound tape reel (34 min.), 7 in., 1/4 in. tape. "Tape 50-PNO 7," on original inventory.
Use copy available (Use tape 4).
R21 - Good-bye Shirley Cannonball?,
1960
Scope and Content Note
1 sound tape reel 21 min.), 1/4 in. tape. Note: this work was later re-titled "Coca-Cola Shirley Cannonball"? "Tape 51 - PNO
1" on original inventory.
Use copy available (Use tape 5).
R22 - Ann Arbor,
1961
Scope and Content Note
1 sound tape reel (6 min.) 1/4 in. tape."Tape 51-PNO 2, 6 min." on original inventory
Use copy available (Use tape 5).
R23 - A Spring Happening,
1961
Scope and Content Note
1 sound tape reel (17 min.), 1/4 in. tape. Labeled copy of tape. "Tape 51 - PNO 3," on original inventory.
Use copy available (Use tape 5).
R24 - A Spring Happening,
1961
Scope and Content Note
1 sound tape reel (6 min.), 1/4 in. tape. "Tape 51-PNO 4," on original inventory.
Use copy available (Use tape 5).
R25 - Words,
1962
Scope and Content Note
1 sound tape reel (23 min.), 1/4 in. tape. Note on inventory: "Environment at Smolin Galllery, includes tapes 1-4" "Tape 51-PNO
5," on original inventory.
Use copy available (Use tape 5).
R26 - Vostell-Kaprow talk,
1964
Scope and Content Note
1 sound tape reel (42 min.), 1/4 in. tape. Note on inventory: "Tenants: A Happening." "Tape 53-PNO 1" on original inventory.
Use copy available (Use tape 6).
R27 - Gas,
1966
Scope and Content Note
1 sound tape reel (28 min.), 1/4 in. tape. Labeled Happening and WCBS - East Hampton mix - copy. "Tape 51-PNO 6," on original
inventory.
Use copy available (Use tape 7).
R28 - Ann Arbor Happening
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
1 sound tape reel (6 min.), 1/4 in. tape. Includes typed instructions. "Tape 51-PNO 7," on original inventory.
Use copy available (Use tape 7).
R29 - unidentified Happening,
1961
Scope and Content Note
1 sound tape reel (29 min.),7 in., 1/4 in. tape. Allan Kaprow and Irving Kaufman. "Tape 52-PNO 1," on original inventory.
Use copy available (Use tape 8).
R30 - The Killer,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
1 sound tape reel (35 min.), 7 in., 1/4 in. tape. Labeled substitute reel. [Ionesco's Absurd theatre] "Tape 52-PNO 2," on
original inventory.
Use copy available (Use tape 8).
No number - Opera Game-Sunday Night Performance,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
1 sound tape reel. Composer: Loran Carrier, includes various newspaper clippings from 1969. Information from original inventory.
[TAPE NOT FOUND/NOT TRANSFERRED, NOT REFORMATTED.]
R31 - stock pile of sounds,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
1 sound tape reel 33 min.), 5 in. 1/4 in. tape. Tape labeled: recorded for "Random Piece." "Tape 52-PNO 3,on original inventory.
Use copy available (Use tape 9).
R32 - blank tape,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
1 sound reel, 3 in. [NOT TRANSFERRED / NOT REFORMATTED.]
R33 - Kaprow recording Anton's voice,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
1 sound reel, 5 in. Kaprow recording his son Anton's voice, probably at first year birthday party. Tape 52-PNO 4," on original
inventory.
Use copy available (Use tape 9).
R34 - Conference of the Society of Cemetery Aestheticians,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
1 sound reel (27 min.), 3 in. From Robert Delford Brown. "Tape 53-PNO 2/3," on original inventory.
Use copy available (Use tape 6).
R35 - Weiderman Piano Sonata,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
1 sound reel, 7 in. Title from label on tape. "Tape 53-PNO 8," on original inventory.
Use copy available (Use tape 7).
V1 - Gas,
1966
Scope and Content Note
1 video cassette (VHS). Copy of 16mm film (F41). [Video not transferred or reformatted.]
V2 - Hello,
1968
Scope and Content Note
1 videoreel (29 min.), sd. b&w, 1/2 in. tape. Poor quality, unedited footage from work done at WGBH, Boston. Edited version
was broadcast in 1969; See Medium is the Medium.
Use copies available (Use VHS tapes 17, 30 and DVD).
V3 - Medium is the Medium,
1969
Scope and Content Note
1 videoreel (4 min.), sd., b&w, 2 inch quad. Edited version of Hello done at WGBH, Boston in 1968 and broadcast in 1969. Unedited
footage is on V2 as "Hello."
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 17 and DVD).
V4 - Home Movies: a marriage happening,
1969
Scope and Content Note
1 videoreel, 1/2 in. tape. [NOT REFORMATTED; not on Peter Kirby's inventory.]
Box 87
V5-V12, V58-V59,
1970-1972
V58 - Tag,
1971
Scope and Content Note
1 videoreel of 2 : 1/2 in. (32:18) : sd., b&w.
1 videocassette (Betacam SP). Archival master. T. Ramos/ A. Ramos.
Use copy available.
V59 - Tag,
1971
Scope and Content Note
2nd videoreel of 2 : 1/2 in. (32:56) : sd., b&w.
1 videocassette (Betacam SP). Archival master. T. Ramos/A. Ramos.
Use copy available.
V5 - Tracts,
1971 May 7
Scope and Content Note
1 videoreel (32 min.),sd., b&w, 1/2 in. tape. Videotape by Paul Challacombe. (see also F.25-F.31)
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 20 and DVD).
V6 - Fragile works of Art (Bob McCarn),
1971?
Scope and Content Note
1 videoreel (55 min.), b&w, 1/2 in. tape. MFA thesis project by Bob McCarn, Cal Arts. Not a Kaprow event. (see also F.5, F.6,
F.42)
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 28 and DVD).
V7 - Tieing Up. . . ,
1971?
Scope and Content Note
1 videoreel (27 min.), b&w, 1/2 in. tape. Tony Ramos, Lowell Darling, Greg Edwards at Cal Arts. Labelled "Technological Trypditch."
Class project. Not a Kaprow event.
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 28 and DVD).
V8 - Message Units Test Tape I,
1972
Scope and Content Note
1 videoreel 2 (16 min.) sd.,b&w, 1/2 in. tape. "No master" - note on tape.
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 23 and DVD).
V9 - Message Units Test Tape II,
1972
Scope and Content Note
2nd videoreel of 2 (32 min.), sd., b&w, 1/2 in. tape.
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 23 and DVD).
V10 - Message Units,
1972
Scope and Content Note
1 videoreel, sd.,b&w, 1/2 in. tape. [Copy? NOT REFORMATTED; not on Peter Kirby's inventory.]
V11 - Message Units Performance Documentation,
1972
Scope and Content Note
1 videoreel (32 min.), b&w, 1/2 in. tape.
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 25 and DVD).
V12 - Message Units I and II,
1972
Scope and Content Note
1 videoreel, 1/2 in. tape. [Copy? NOT REFORMATTED; not on Peter Kirby's inventory.]
V13 - Message Units (Final) ,
1972 1972?
Scope and Content Note
1 videoreel (42 min.),sd., b&w, 1/2 in. tape. Illinois State University, Normal. Hugh Stumbo. Tape is labelled "Happening."
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 24 and DVD).
V14 - Scales, Cal Arts, or
1971 1972
Scope and Content Note
1 videoreel of 2 (18 min.), sd., b&w, 1/2 in. tape. Piece at Cal Arts.
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 23 and DVD).
V15 - Scales, Cal Arts, or
1971 1972
Scope and Content Note
2nd videoreel of 2 (18 min.), sd.,b&w, 1/2 in. tape. Piece at Cal Arts.
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 23 and DVD).
V16 - Scales, Cooper Union, or
1972 1973
Scope and Content Note
1 videoreel of 5 (33 min.),sd.,b&w, 1/2 in. tape. Piece at Cooper Union.
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 21 and DVD).
V17 - Scales, Cooper Union, or
1972 1973
Scope and Content Note
2nd videoreel of 5 (32 min.), sd.,b&w, 1/2 in. tape.
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 21 and DVD).
V18 - Scales, Cooper Union, or
1972 1973
Scope and Content Note
3rd videoreel of 5 (22 min.), sd.,b&w, 1/2 in. tape.
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 22 and DVD).
V19 - Scales, Cooper Union, or
1972 1973
Scope and Content Note
4th videoreel of 5 (30 min.), sd.,b&w, 1/2 in. tape.
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 22 and DVD).
V20 - Scales, Cooper Union, or
1972 1973
Scope and Content Note
5th videoreel of 5 (32 min.), sd.,b&w, 1/2 in. tape.
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 22 and DVD).
V21 - Time Pieces, (Berlin)
1973
Scope and Content Note
1 videoreel (48 min.), sd.,b&w, 1/2 in. tape.
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 26 and DVD).
V22 - Dial,
1973 Feb.
Scope and Content Note
1 videoreel, sd., b&w,1/2 in. tape. At Western Washington State College (Bellingham, WA), camerawork and editing by Lawrence
Harrison.
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 25 and DVD).
V23 - People of Pulsa, Paul and others,
1974?
Scope and Content Note
1 videoreel (17 min.), sd.,b&w, 1/2 in. tape. Paul Fugue, Patrick Clancy. Not a Kaprow event.
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 19 and DVD).
V24 - Baggage,
April 1972
Scope and Content Note
1 videoreel (19 min.), sd., b&w, 1/2 in. tape. Rice University.
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 20 and DVD).
V25 - Then,
1974
Scope and Content Note
1 videoreel (20 min.), sd.,b&w, 1/2 in. tape. Allan Kaprow's first video as a video, rather than as documentation.
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 25 and DVD).
V26 - 2nd Routine,
1974
Scope and Content Note
1 videoreel (30 min.), sd.,b&w, 1/2 in. tape. Stefanotty Gallery, New York.
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 20 and DVD).
V27 - 3rd Routine - "copy of tapes made in Köln,"
1974 July 17
Scope and Content Note
1 videcassette (PAL) (12 min.),sd., b&w, 3/4 in. tape. For Project 74, Kölnischer Kunstverein-Köln.
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 16 and DVD).
V28 - Then (Florence),
1974
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (PAL) (25 min.), sd., b&w, 3/4 in. tape. NTSC. Produced by Art/Tapes/ZZ. Florence. [NOT TRANSFERRED / NOT
REFORMATTED.]
V29 - 3rd Routine (Florence),
1974
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (PAL) (60 min.), sd., b&w, 3/4 in. tape. Severe technical problems. [NOT TRANSFERRED / NOT REFORMATTED.]
V30 - Then,
1974
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (U-Matic PAL) (25 min.), sd.,b&w, 3/4 in. tape. Produced by Art/Tapes/ZZ. Florence. Copy of V.25
Use copy available (Use VHS tape 16).
V31 - 2nd Routine (New York),
1974
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (U-Matic) (16 min.), sd.,b&w, 3/4 in. tape.
Use copy available (Use VHS tape 17).
V32 - Warm-Ups,
1975
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (U-Matic PAL) (14 min.), sd.,col., 3/4 in. tape. Transfer from 16 mm. film. [REFORMATTED from the film; See
F47.]
Use copy available (Use VHS tape 1).
V33 - Rates of Exchange,
1975
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (U-Matic) (46 min.), sd.,b&w, 3/4 in. tape. Tape made by Peter Kirby.
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 15 and DVD).
V34 - Time Pieces,
1975
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (U-Matic) (29 min.), col., b&w,mono., 3/4 in. tape. 1 of 2 copies (see V35). Tape by Peter Kirby.
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 18 and DVD).
V35 - Time Pieces,
1975
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (U-Matic) (29 min.), col., mono., 3/4 in. tape. Tape by Peter Kirby. Copy 2 [see V34]. [NOT TRANSFERRED /
NOT REFORMATTED.]
V36 - Rates of Exchange,
1975
Scope and Content Note
1 videoreel, 1/2 in. tape. Copy of V33? [NOT REFORMATTED; not on Kirby's inventory.]
V37 - Seven Kinds of Sympathy,
1976
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (U-Matic) (8 min.), sd.,col., 3/4 in. tape. Tape by Peter Kirby.
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 18 and DVD).
V38 - Durations,
1976
Scope and Content Note
1 videoreel (U-Matic PAL) (20 min.), si., b&w,1/2in. tape, Pro Musica Nova, Radio Bremen. Transfer of unfinished film, sound
track never completed: See Durations on 16 mm. film (F50, F51). Transferred and reformatted from film. [NOT TRANSFERRED /
NOT REFORMATTED.]
V39 - 2nd Routine, , Time Pieces, , and Private Parts,
1974 1975 1977
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS), 1/2 in. tape. Extra copies of these tapes. [NOT REFORMATTED.]
V40 - Private Parts,
1977
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (U-Matic) (17 min.), col., mono., 1/2 in. tape. 1 of 3 copies. Tape by Peter Kirby.
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 3 and DVD).
V41 - Private Parts,
1977
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (U-Matic) (17 min.), col., mono., 1/2 in. tape. Copy 2 of V40. Tape by Peter Kirby. [NOT TRANSFERRED / NOT
REFORMATTED.]
V42 - Private Parts,
1977
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (U-Matic) (17 min.), col., mono., 3/4 in. tape. Copy 3 of V40. Tape by Peter Kirby. [NOT TRANSFERRED / NOT
REFORMATTED.]
V43 - Common Senses,
1977
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (U-Matic) (6 min.), col.mono, 3/4 in. tape. 1 of 3 copies. Tape by Peter Kirby.
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 3 and DVD).
V44 - Common Senses,
1977
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (U-Matic) (6 min.), 3/4 in. tape. Copy 2 of V43. Tape by Peter Kirby. [NOT TRANSFERRED / NOT REFORMATTED.]
V45 - Common Senses,
1977
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (U-Matic) (6 min.), col., mono., 3/4 in. tape. Tape by Peter Kirby. Copy 3 of V43. [NOT TRANSFERRED / NOT
REFORMATTED.]
V46 - The Shortest Parade,
1981
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (U-Matic) (13 min.), col., mono.,3/4 in. tape. Washington, D.C. "Edited, Dub."
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 15 and DVD).
V47 - Tease: unedited takes for 1 minute spots, Video as attitude conference, Santa Fe,
1983 May
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (U-Matic) (20 min.), col., 3/4 in. tape. "Will you answer" - written on tape. [NOT TRANSFERRED / NOT REFORMATTED.]
V48 - Tease: unedited takes for 1 minute spots, Video as attitude conference, Santa Fe,
1983 May
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (U-Matic) (20 min.), col., 3/4 in. tape. [NOT TRANSFERRED / NOT REFORMATTED.]
V49 - Tease: takes for 1 minute spots, Video as attitude conference, Santa Fe,
1983 May
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (U-Matic) (6 min.), col., mono.,3/4 in. tape. Six 30 sec. spots created at the Video as Attitude festival.
"Edited master" - written on tape.
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 17 and DVD).
V50 - Portable TV on Allan Kaprow: episodes 6 and 7,
1989?
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS) (30 min.), col.,sd.,1/2 in. tape. Both episodes directed by Steve Farley with Paul Brach, Marianne Jones
and Daniela Klare. Williams College?
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 4 and DVD).
V51 - Negesy/Kaprow flux events,
1991
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS) (60 min.), col.,sd.,1/2 in. tape. Univ. of Calif., San Diego.
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 14 and DVD).
V52 - The Kaprow Family at Naples,
1992
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS PAL) (43 min. 30 sec.), col. sd.,1/2in. tape.
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 16 and DVD).
V53 - Hors Limites (L'Art et la vie),
1994
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (Betacam SP PAL) (3 min.), col.,sd.,1/2 in. tape. Interview with Kaprow at exhibit, Centre Georges Pompidou.
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 16 and DVD).
V54 - Happening, University of Iowa Museum of Art,
1996 March 5-8
Scope and Content Note
1 videocassette (VHS, EP mode) (4 hr., 47 min.), col.,sd.,1/2 in. tape. Video by Lane Wyrick, Xap Interactive. Allan Kaprow
Happening: Installation, Perspectives, Student Participation, Clapp Hall Lecture, Opening Reception.
Use copies available (Use VHS tapes 5-9 and DVD).
V55 - Kaprow lecture,
ca. 1972
Scope and Content Note
1 videoreel (62 min.), b&w, sd.,1/2 in. tape.
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 27 and DVD).
V56 - Kaprow lecture about "Easy,"
ca. 1972
Scope and Content Note
1 videoreel (32 min.), b&w, sd.,1/2 in. tape. Chicago.
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 19 and DVD).
V57 - Kaprow lecture, Cooper Union,
ca. 1972.
Scope and Content Note
1 videoreel (19 min.), b&w, sd.,1/2 in. tape.
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 19 and DVD).
Box 96-99
Films (Super 8 and 16mm),
1968-1976
F1 - Population 1,
1968
Scope and Content Note
1 film reel (Super 8)(3 min.)col.,si.
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 11 and DVD).
F2 - Population 2,
1968
Scope and Content Note
1 film reel (Super 8)(3min.)col.si.
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 11 and DVD).
F3 - Sweet Wall (beginning),
1970
Scope and Content Note
1 film reel (Super 8)(3 min..)col.,si.
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 11 and DVD).
F4 - Sweet Wall; Zorthian's Thanksgiving,
1970
Scope and Content Note
1 film reel (Super 8)col.,si.
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 11 and DVD).
F5 - Fragile Works of Art, by Robert McCarn (Tony's reel),
1971?
Scope and Content Note
1 film reel (Super 8)(3 min.)col.,si. Not a Kaproqw Event(see also V.6, F42)
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 11 and DVD).
F6 - Fragile Works of Art, by Robert McCarn (leaving for Berkeley; M.F.A),
1971
Scope and Content Note
1 film reel (Super 8) (3 min.) col., si. Not a Kaprow Event (see also V.6,F.42)
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 11 and DVD).
F7 - Calendar I,
1971
Scope and Content Note
1 film reel (Super 8)(3 min.)col.,si.
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 10 and DVD).
F8 - Calendar II,
1971
Scope and Content Note
1 film reel (Super 8)(3 min.)col.,si.
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 10 and DVD).
F9 - Calendar III,
1971
Scope and Content Note
1 film reel (Super 8)(3 min.)col.,si.
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 10 and DVD).
F10 - Calendar IV,
1971
Scope and Content Note
1 film reel (Super 8)(3 min.)col.,si.
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 10 and DVD).
F11 - Allan's Calendar,
1971
Scope and Content Note
1 film reel (Super 8)(3 min.)col.,si.
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 10 and DVD).
F12 - Allan's Calendar,
1971
Scope and Content Note
1 film reel (Super 8)(3 min.)col.,si.
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 10 and DVD).
F13 - Allan Kaprow Ski Lift, Aspen,
1971 June
Scope and Content Note
1 film reel (Super 8).(3 min.)col.,si., Aspen Design Conference.
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 10 and DVD).
F14 - Kaprow Aspen Event, conference section,
1971
Scope and Content Note
1 film reel (Super 8).(3 min.)col.,si., Aspen Design Conference.
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 10 and DVD).
F15 - Kaprow Aspen Event,
1971
Scope and Content Note
1 film reel (Super 8).(3 min.)col.,si., Aspen Design Conference.
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 10 and DVD).
F16 - Kaprow Aspen Event (+ late PM cocktail study),
1971
Scope and Content Note
1 film reel (Super 8).(3 min.)col.,si., Aspen Design Conference.
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 10 and DVD).
F17 - Helicopter (Alison Knowles and Norm Kaplan's event); Alison Knowles at "House of Dust,"
1971 May
Scope and Content Note
1 film reel (Super 8).(3 min.)col.,si., Alison Knowles at Cal Arts. Not a Kaprow event.
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 10 and DVD).
F18 - HIGHS Temp Shadow,
1973
Scope and Content Note
1 film reel (Super 8). (3 min.)col.,si.
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 11 and DVD).
F19 - HIGHS (temp),
1973
Scope and Content Note
1 film reel (Super 8).(3 min.)col.,si.
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 11 and DVD).
F20 - HIGHS Shadow (part),
1973
Scope and Content Note
1 film reel (Super 8).(3 min.)col.,si.
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 11 and DVD).
F21 - HIGHS heat, outside,
1973
Scope and Content Note
1 film reel (Super 8)(3 min.)col.,si.
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 11 and DVD).
F22 - Big Sur Ocean,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
1 film reel (Super 8)(3 min.)col.,si., Not a Kaprow event.
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 11 and DVD).
F23 - Durations (unedited footage),
1976
Scope and Content Note
1 film reel(Super 8)(3 min.)col.,si.,("Ice piece" on Kirby inventory.)(see also F.50,F.51)
Use copy available.
F24 - Durations(unedited footage),
1976
Scope and Content Note
1 film reel.(Super 8)(3 min.)col.,si.,("Ice piece" on Kirby inventory.)(see also F.50,F.51)
Use copy available.
F25 - Tracts: 1st day, masking, playing, arranging the forms and mixing concrete,
1971
Scope and Content Note
1 film reel (Super 8)(3 min.)col.,si., (See also V.5)
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 11 and DVD).
F26 - 1st day PM,
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
1 film reel (Super 8). (3 min.) col., si.
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 11 and DVD).
F27 - Tracts: 2nd day breaking 12 ft., 6 ft. pouring new forms with rubble,
1971
Scope and Content Note
1 film reel (Super 8)(3 min.) col.,si., (See also V.5).
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 11 and DVD).
F28 - Tracts: 3rd day 3 ft. glade burying rubble,
1971
Scope and Content Note
1 film reel (Super 8)(3 min.) col., si. (See also V.5).
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 11 and DVD).
F29 - Tracts: 3rd day PM field, breaking second set, burying,
1971
Scope and Content Note
1 film reel (Super 8)(3 min.)col.,si. (See also V.5).
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 11 and DVD).
F30 - Tracts: 3rd day PM breaking and burying 2nd rubble,
1971
Scope and Content Note
1 film reel (Super 8)(3 min.)col.,si. (See also V.5).
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 11 and DVD).
F31 - Tracts: 3rd day PM last reel,
1971
Scope and Content Note
1 film reel (Super 8)(3 min.)col.,si. (See also V.5).
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 11 and DVD).
F32 - Print-Out: Part I, good close up of tires,
1971
Scope and Content Note
1 film reel (Super 8)(3 min.)col.,si.
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 10 and DVD).
F33 - Print-Out: Part II,
1971
Scope and Content Note
1 film reel (Super 8)(3 min.)col.,si.
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 10 and DVD).
F34 - Print-Out: Part I (Night film) no good,
1971
Scope and Content Note
1 film reel (Super 8)(3 min.)col.,si.
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 10 and DVD).
F35 - Print-Out: Part I,
1971
Scope and Content Note
1 film reel (Super 8)(3 min.)col.,si.
Use copies available (Use VHS tape 10 and DVD).
