Allan Kaprow, American painter and author (died 2006)

Allan Kaprow

American performance artist, installation artist, painter (1927–2006)

Allan Kaprow was an American performance artist, installation artist, painter, and assemblagist. He helped to develop the "Environment" and "Happening" in the late 1950s and 1960s, as well as their theory. His Happenings — some 200 of them — evolved over the years. Eventually…