Julie Martin Oral History Transcript Block 48 (Q19918): Difference between revisions

Martin: No, the first artists performance, which everyone calls Happenings. But Whitman, [Red] Grooms, [Jim] Dine, [Claes] Oldenburg always called their works some form of theater: Grooms, plays; Whitman, theater pieces; Dine, artists theater; Oldenburg called his series Ray Gun Theater [1962], et cetera. Again, this is one of my hobbyhorses: to rescue this work from the label Happenings. I kn