Chapter 1

Learning to Think Like a Modernist

Photo: Slide projected during performance, Allan Kaprow’s Beard, 1959

Chapter 2.

Reinventing the World: Claes Oldenburg’s Ray Gun Spec

Photo. Claes Oldenburg, Nekropolis II, 1962

Chapter 3

How to Make a Happening

Photo: Allan Kaprow, Self-Service, 1966

Chapter 4

 Sexuality and the State: Claes Oldenburg’s Gravity

Photo: Claes Oldenburg, Notebook page with costume study for Stars. Clip of beauty pageant by the Daughters of the American Revolution, 1963

Chapter 5

 “dump truck = anus”

Photo: Claes Oldenburg, Rainbow: Squeezable Legs, 1967

Chapter 6

Chapter 6 Death in the Museum

Photo: Allan Kaprow, Fluids, 1967

Chapter 7

Placid Civic Monument

Photo: Claes Oldenburg, Placid Civic Monument, 1967

Conclusion

An Ending and a Continuing

Photo: Allan Kaprow, Hello, video, 1969