KAPROW, Allan

To the claim that American universities are inhospitable to avant-garde art and artists, Kaprow will always be cited as a principal counter-example, as well he should be, having taught at universities (albeit four of the more sophisticated—Rutgers, SUNY-Stony Brook, Cal Arts, UCSD) for forty years while inventing the Happening as a form of alternative performance. Beginning around 1956 with Assemblages incorporating materials found in public places, he progressed to Environments, or artistically...