These supplementary performance instructions for Soap were likely used to help explain how to perform the score, which itself is quite minimal and poetic in its outline.
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Three differently formatted scores for
Soap (December 1964)
Handwritten page of notes for
Soap (fall 1965)
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)
Score for Soap in the form of a poster
(1964–65)
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| Title | Notes to Soap |
| Maker | Allan Kaprow (American, 1927–2006) |
| Date | February 1965 |
| Type | sketches and materials |
| Location | Getty Research Institute, Allan Kaprow Papers, 980063, box 9, folder 6 |
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Kaprow, Allan. Notes to Soap, February 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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