Days Off : A Calendar of Happenings
  • artists' book
  • wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • staple bound
  • black-and-white
  • 27 x 6 x 6 cm. [rolled] ; 38.2 x 27.2 cm. (unrolled)
  • [63] pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered

Days Off : A Calendar of Happenings

Allan Kaprow

Days Off : A Calendar of Happenings

description

Calendar style folio publication documenting Kaprow's Happenings "Round Trip," "Runner," "Transfer (For Christo)," "Pose," "Record II (For Roger Shattuck," "Shape," "Population," "Course," Travelog," "Fluids," and "Moving." Features front cover photo by Peter Moore. Introduction reads "This is a calendar of past events. The days on it are the days of the Happenings. They were days off. People played. Each day is a page, or more that can be taken off and thrown away. The Happenings were throwaways. Once only. Nothing left - except maybe thoughts. Photos and programs of such events are leftover thoughts in the form of gossip. And gossip is also play. For anybody. As the calendar is discarded like the Happenings, the gossip may remain in action." Originally issued rolled in plastic shrink-wrap, like a newspaper on a rainy day.

references

"Esthétique du Livre d'Artiste 1960 / 1980" by Anne Moeglin-Delcroix. Paris, France : Jean-Michel Place / Bibliothèque Nationale de France, 1997, pp. 259.
"Allan Kaprow : A Bibliography" by Allan Kaprow, Giorgio Maffei. Milano, Italy : Mousse Publishing, 2011, pp. 44 - 47.
$500.00
Condition:  Very Good / Fine. Copy in extremely good condition with newsprint still fresh and not brittle. 4 mm. tear to left side edge of verso carrying through to last 7 pages ranging in size from 2 mm. - 4 mm. 2 mm. tear to bottom left edge of verso. Light yellowing of pages and curl to calendar from original distribution (originally issued rolled in plastic shrink-wrap). Otherwise Fine, clean and unmarked. Will shipped rolled as issued unless purchaser requests flat shipping for additional charge.
[Object # 38530]

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$450.00
Condition:  Fair / Good. 12.2 cm. stain to bottom edge of recto. 6 cm. of loss to top left corner, 1.5 cm. tear to left side edge, 7 mm. tear to three hole punch, 4 mm. tear to additional hole edges. 1 cm. and 1.5 cm. tears to recto that carry through to over half of the pages. Additional tears to pages ranging from 7 mm. to 4 cm. Wear to verso includes 4.4 cm. fold with 2.5 cm. tear to top edge; 1 mm., 1mm., 1 cm., 3 mm. tears to verso edges. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked. Will be shipped rolled, as issued.
[Object # 38529]

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