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Allan Kaprow--Art as Life Edited by Eva Meyer-Hermann, Andrew Perchuk and Stephanie Rosenthal. Getty, $55 (408p) ISBN 978-0-89236-890-7
In 1958, Allan Kaprow (1927-2006) created the first Happening, a one-time, scripted event that could take place in either a gallery or a public space. Although the term "happening" entered the vernacular, the essayists in this catalogue that accompanies a retrospective at L.A.'s Museum of Contemporary Art refer several times to their subject as the "best-known unknown artist" of his generation. Before Happenings put him center stage in the art world, Kaprow worked his way through a …