Soap was commissioned by Florida State University for the Eighteenth Annual Symposium at the Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida, 1–4 February 1965. Kaprow lays out the form and meaning of the score for Soap in notes he may have used when introducing the happening to potential participants on 2 February.
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Three differently formatted scores for
Soap (December 1964)
Allan Kaprow’s clipping of Clyde Burnett,
“History of Photography Is Reviewed,” likely
printed in the
Sarasota Herald-Tribune (1965)
Notice of cancelation of Allan Kaprow’s
Soap (1965)
Letter from Robert Carter, a graduate student in
painting at Florida State University, to Allan
Kaprow (ca. 1965)
Clipping of a tidal chart of waves at Sarasota
Bay, from Soap (1 February 1965)
Program for Florida State University’s
Eighteenth Annual Symposium, which included
Kaprow’s Soap (1–4 February 1965)
Notes to Soap (February 1965)
Score for Soap in the form of a poster
(1964–65)
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| Title | Handwritten page of notes for Soap |
| Maker | Allan Kaprow (American, 1927–2006) |
| Date | fall 1965 |
| Type | sketches and materials |
| Location | Getty Research Institute, Allan Kaprow Papers, 980063, box 9, folder 6 |
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Kaprow, Allan. Handwritten page of notes for
Soap, fall 1965. Getty Research Institute,
Allan Kaprow Papers, 980063, box 9, folder 6. In
The Scores Project: Experimental Notation in Music,
Art, Poetry, and Dance, 1950–1975, ed. Michael Gallope, Natilee Harren, and John
Hicks. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2025.
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