Tree, A Happening (Original instructions for the May 19, 1963 Yam Festival event, with contemporary Kaprow signature and date)
by Allan Kaprow
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About This Item
N.p.: N.p., 1963. Original spirit duplication instructions for Allan Kaprow's "Tree, A Happening," a performance art piece which took place as part of The Yam Festival, at painter and sculptor George Segal's farm in South Brunswick, New Jersey, on May 19, 1963, with Kaprow's contemporary signature, "Kaprow May '63" in manuscript ink on top of first page. The instructions are three pages on two leaves, with text on recto of first page and recto and verso of second page.
A forerunner of Fluxus, performance art, and installation art, Allan Kaprow's "Happenings" and "Activities" of the 1950s and 1960s heralded a new gallery-less approach to an art which could not be bought, and in Kaprow's own words "The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible."
The Yam Festival included actions and happenings by artists and musicians including Dick Higgins, La Monte Young, John Cage, Alison Knowles, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Wolf Vostell.
8.5 x 14 inches, bound with a single staple to top left. Very Good plus, with three horizontal creases, some light creasing, edgewear, and soiling, a small strip of discoloration below center fold and three small silverfish holes to right margin of both pages.
Full provenance available.
A forerunner of Fluxus, performance art, and installation art, Allan Kaprow's "Happenings" and "Activities" of the 1950s and 1960s heralded a new gallery-less approach to an art which could not be bought, and in Kaprow's own words "The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible."
The Yam Festival included actions and happenings by artists and musicians including Dick Higgins, La Monte Young, John Cage, Alison Knowles, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Wolf Vostell.
8.5 x 14 inches, bound with a single staple to top left. Very Good plus, with three horizontal creases, some light creasing, edgewear, and soiling, a small strip of discoloration below center fold and three small silverfish holes to right margin of both pages.
Full provenance available.
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- Seller
- Royal Books, Inc. (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 151370
- Title
- Tree, A Happening (Original instructions for the May 19, 1963 Yam Festival event, with contemporary Kaprow signature and date)
- Author
- Allan Kaprow
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- N.p.
- Place of Publication
- N.p.
- Date Published
- 1963
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Original Manuscripts | Original Artwork | Performance Art | Artists | Fluxus | Avant-garde | Beat Literature and Interest | Hippie Culture
- Bookseller catalogs
- Original Manuscripts; Avant-garde; Original Artwork; Fluxus; Beat Literature and Interest;
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Recto
- The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.