Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS V
3. List of Illustrations VII
4. Acknowledgments IX
5. Introduction XI
6. Preface to the Expanded Edition XXVII
7. THE FIFTIES
8. The Legacy of Jackson Pollock (1958) 1
9. Notes on the Creation of a Total Art (1958) 10
10. THE SIXTIES
11. Happenings in the New York Scene (1961) 15
12. Impurity (1963) 27
13. The Artist as a Man of the World (1964) 46
14. The Happenings Are Dead: Long Live the Happenings! (1966) 59
15. Experimental Art (1966) 66
16. Manifesto (1966) 81
17. Pinpointing Happenings (1967) 84
18. The Shape of the Art Environment (1968) 90
19. THE SEVENTIES
20. The Education of the Un-Artist, Part I (1971) 97
21. The Education of the Un-Artist, Part II (1972) 110
22. Doctor MD (1973) 127
23. The Education of the Un-Artist, Part III (1974) 130
24. Video Art: Old Wine, New Bottle (1974) 148
25. Formalism: Flogging a Dead Horse (1974) 154
26. Nontheatrical Performance (1976) 163
27. Participation Performance (1977) 181
28. Performing Life (1979) 195
29. THE EIGHTIES
30. The Real Experiment (1983) 201
31. Art Which Can't Be Art (1986) 219
32. Right Living (1987) 223
33. THE NINETIES
34. The Meaning of Life (1990) 229
35. Maestro Maciunas (1996) 243
36. Just Doing (1997) 247
37. Selected Bibliography of Allan Kaprow's Writings on Art 253
38. Index 257