Table of Contents

Foreword: Allan at Work--David Antin Acknowledgments Introduction 1. John Dewey and the Ranch 2. A Prelude 3. Eighteen Happenings in Six Parts 4. Happenings in the New York Scene 5. Hoopla 6. On the Road 7. Passing Through 8. The Education of the Un-Artist, I 9. The Education of the Un-Artist, II 10. The Education of the Un-Artist, III 11. Zen 12. Storytelling 13. Rehearsals Notes List of Illustrations Index

About the Author

Jeff Kelley is a critic and educator living in Oakland, California, and editor of Allan Kaprow's Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life (California, 1993, 2003). David Antin is an internationally recognized poet and performance artist, an art and literary critic, and Professor Emeritus in the Visual Arts Department of the University of California, San Diego.

Reviews

"Childsplay is an extraordinary book. Jeff Kelley not only narrates the history of Allan Kaprow's art but also tells the story of art in the last half of the twentieth century from an entirely fresh point of view. He makes sense of performance history in the context of developments in the more traditional art media in a way that I find consistently illuminating." - Henry Sayre, author of The Object of Performance"