Allan Kaprow's "happenings" and "environments" were the precursors to
contemporary performance art, and his essays are some of the most
thoughtful, provocative, and influential of his generation. His
sustained inquiry into the paradoxical relationship of art to life and
into the nature of meaning itself is brought into focus in this newly
expanded collection of his most significant writings. A new preface and
two new additional essays published in the 1990s bring this valuable
collection up to date.