Allan Kaprow - How To Make A Happening - SUPER RARE 1966 LP (M-132) Ltd. Edition
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Allan Kaprow - How To Make A Happening - SUPER RARE 1966 LP (M-132) Limited Edition
Vinyl is a weak VG...visually. LP show some moderate to heavy scuffing on both sides, but with only one or two, light but feelable, marks. This spoke word album plays through entirely without skips or jumps on my turntable. There is some light static in the backround, but his words are clear. There are a couple of pops, but nothing serious enough to cause any serious sound issues. A professional cleaning will make the album sound even better - I don't have a VPI machine...
The cardboard jacket is VG+ with some minor shelf wear and a few corner dings. Wording on back is perfectly clear. No writing, repairs or seam splits. Rigid plastic, silkscreened, out remains intact with no splits or tears. This plastic sleeve is open only at the mouth of the album. The screen print on the jacket is clear and legible "How To Make A Happening", "Allan Kaprow" and "Something Else?" -
THIS ALBUM IS EXTREMELY RARE...
Photo is from Allan Kaprow's happening "Household", Cornell University, 1964.
In 1957 Alan Kaprow decided to try out the possibility that the "action" of Action Painting was a ritual act of creation, not just an incidental frenzy of movement that produced white canvases. That decision effectively ended his growing career as a painter. Since then he has given to the world a word: the Happening. From Murray the K's Radio program to the Revlon commercials, to peace marches and sit-ins, to the campaigns of politicians - that word seems to have satisfied a need to evoke the zest, freakishness and game of the life around us. Kaprow himself finds the Cape Kennedy rocket launchings among the most powerful quasi-Happenings. And one embittered cynic recently compared the war in Viet Nam to a "Happening gone out of control".
(Excerpt from the liner notes)
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