According to this article, Allan Kaprow held the introductory meeting for Soap, as planned, in the courtyard of the Ringling Museum of Art, where he explained that the happening was a “ritual” and “symbolic of life and death.” But on Wednesday morning, Kaprow reportedly announced that the happening was canceled “because of misinterpretation of intent.”
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Three differently formatted scores for
Soap (December 1964)
Handwritten page of notes for
Soap (fall 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 | Allan Kaprow’s clipping of Clyde Burnett, “History of Photography Is Reviewed,” likely printed in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune |
| Date | 1965 |
| Type | press clipping |
| Location | Getty Research Institute, Allan Kaprow Papers, 980063, box 9, folder 6 |
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Allan Kaprow’s clipping of Clyde Burnett, “History of
Photography Is Reviewed,” likely printed in the
Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 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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