ASSEMBLAGE ENVIRONMENTS & HAPPENINGS ~ Alan Kaprow ~ First Edition HC 1966

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ASSEMBLAGE ENVIRONMENTS & HAPPENINGS ~ Alan Kaprow ~ First Edition HC 1966 Harry Abrams. Bound in Japan
Vinyl original case cover is missing a piece. Some wear to the edges of the book.  Price corner cut off. No marks inside. Binding intact.
Bound in publishers coarse brown buckram, and encased in a plastic sleeve.
Wide oversized quarto. 341 pp.
Kaprow’s theory of the evolution of abstract expressionist painting into Neo-Dada, assemblage, environments, and happenings of the early 1960s. This rare book documents works by Kaprow and artists including Red Grooms, Robert Whitman,  Robert Rauchshenberg, Jackson Pollock, Jim Dine. Yayoi Kusama, Claes Oldenburg, George Segal, Jean Tinquely and the Gutai group.
Text and design by Allan Kaprow with a selection of scenarios by 9 Japanese of the Gutai Group, Jean Jacques Lebel, Wolf Vostell. George Brecht, Kenneth Dewey, Milan Knizak and Allan Kaprow.
Shipped with USPS Media Mail.