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happening, an artistic event of a theatrical nature, but usually improvised spontaneously without the framework of a plot. The term originated with the creation and performance in 1959 of Allan Kaprow's "18 Happenings in 6 Parts." This work emphasized various sorts of performances and experiences, including slide projection, dance, and taste and odor sensations. Many examples of the genre required audience participation, and the aesthetic effect produced was a result of the combination of events experienced. Celebrated happenings include Claes Oldenburg Oldenburg, Claes (klăs), 1929–, Swedish-American artist, b. Stockholm. ..... Click the link for more information. 's "Store" (1961), "Autobodies" (1963), and "Washes" (1965); Robert Rauschenberg Rauschenberg, Robert (rou`shənbûrg'), 1925–, American painter, b. Port Arthur, Tex. ..... Click the link for more information. 's "Map Room II" (1965); Robert Whitman's "The American Moon" (1960); and Kaprow's own "Calling" (1965). BibliographySee RoseLee Goldberg, Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present (1988) and R. E. Haywood, Revolution of the Ordinary: Allen Kaprow and the Invention of Happenings (1993). How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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From all which he satisfied himself, that as he had every day a chance of this happening, so had he more than an even chance of its happening within a few years. If we assume, as science normally does, the continuity of physical processes, we are forced to conclude that, at the place where the plate is, and at all places between it and a star which it photographs, SOMETHING is happening which is specially connected with that star. There was never any telling what might happen, for with live things events were somehow always happening differently. |
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