Preface to the expanded edition: On the way to un-art -- THE FIFTIES-- The legacy of Jackson Pollock (1958) -- Notes on the creation of a Total Art (1958) -- THE SIXTIES -- Happenings in the New York scene (1961) -- Impurity (1963) -- The artist as a man of the world (1964) -- The happenings are dead: Long live the happenings! (1966) -- Experimental art (1966) -- Manifesto (1966) -- Pinpointing Happenings (1967) -- The shape of the art environment (1968) -- THE SEVENTIES -- The education of the un-artist, part I (1971) --The education of the un-artist, Part II (1972) -- Doctor MD (1973) -- The education of the un-artist, Part III (1974) -- Video art: Old Wine, New Bottle (1974) -- Formalism: Flogging a Dead Horse (1974) -- Nontheatrical performance (1976) -- Participation performance (1977) -- Performing life (1979) -- THE EIGHTIES -- The real experiment (1983) -- Art which can't be art (1986) -- Right living (1987) -- THE NINETIES -- The meaning of life (1990) -- Maestro Maciunas (1996) -- Just doing (1997)