Digital Bibliography of Happenings

Related Websites

American Masters - Black Mountain College  Public Broadcasting Station.  Created January 1995/Last revised January 2001.   Great site with information on Black Mountain College in the mid 1950s.  Good detail on individual artists, such as Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage, and Merce Cunningham.

Allan Kaprow Information  Geocities.  Last revised October, 1999.   Great site for information on the so-called "father" of Happenings, Allan Kaprow.

Timeline - Happenings.   Art Museum.net.  Created 1995/Last revised September 2000.   Good site with a timeline of the origins of modern art, from collage and assemblage to Happenings, including quotes and pictures.

Allan Kaprow Workshop Linda Cassens.  Created August 1996/Last revised July 1997.   Interesting site with agenda, pictures and log recipe of a workshop held by Allan Kaprow in Liestal, Switzerland in 1996.  The workshop was sponsored by the Kunsthalle im Kulturhaus Palazzo/Baselland, and was a two-day event. 

Print Resources

Becker, Jurgen, and Vostell, Wolf, Editors. 1965. Happenings. Hamburg, Germany: Rowohlt. Brief description of contents.

Kaprow, Allan. 1966. Assemblage, Environments, & Happenings. New York, NY: Abrams. Brief description of contents.

Kirby, Michael. 1965. Happenings. New York, NY: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc. Brief description of contents.

Kostelanetz, Richard. 1968. The Theatre of Mixed Means. New York, NY: The Dial Press, Inc.. Brief description of contents.

Sanford, Mariellen, Editor. 1995. Happenings and Other Acts. New York, NY: Routledge. Brief description of contents.

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