Allan Kaprow's "happenings" and "environments" were the precursors to contemporary performance art, and his essays are some of the most thoughtful, provocative, and influential of his generation. His sustained inquiry into the paradoxical relationship of art to life and into the nature of meaning itself is brought into focus in this newly expanded collection of his most significant writings. A new preface and two new additional essays published in the 1990s bring this valuable collection up to date.

Hauser & Wirth opened its first US gallery with a presentation of Allan Kaprow's (1927-2006) seminal Environment Yard: a mountain of black rubber auto tires and tarpaper-wrapped forms through which visitors jumped and crawled, first made by the artist in 1961 and reinterpreted in other locations. This volume documents a reinvention of Yard by William Pope.L at the site of the work's original creation.