Fluxus Experience

Fluxus Experience
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 278
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780520228672
ISBN-13 : 0520228677
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis Fluxus Experience by : Hannah Higgins

Hannah Higgins explores the influential art movement Fluxus. Daring, disparate and contentious, Fluxus artists worked with minimal and prosaic materials now familiar in post-World War II art. Higgins describes the experience of Fluxus for viewers as affirming transactions between the self and the world.

Fluxus Forms

Fluxus Forms
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 301
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780226354927
ISBN-13 : 022635492X
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis Fluxus Forms by : Natilee Harren

“PURGE the world of dead art, imitation, artificial art. . . . Promote living art, anti-art, promote NON ART REALITY to be grasped by all peoples,” writes artist George Maciunas in his Fluxus manifesto of 1963. Reacting against an elitist art world enthralled by modernist aesthetics, Fluxus encouraged playfulness, chance, irreverence, and viewer participation. The diverse collective—including George Brecht, Robert Filliou, Dick Higgins, Alison Knowles, George Maciunas, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Benjamin Patterson, Takako Saito, Mieko Shiomi, Ben Vautier, and Robert Watts—embraced humble objects and everyday gestures as critical means of finding freedom and excitement beyond traditional forms of art-making. While today the Fluxus collective is recognized for its radical neo-avant-garde works of performance, publishing, and relational art and its experimental, interdisciplinary approach, it was not taken seriously in its own time. With Fluxus Forms, Natilee Harren captures the magnetic energy of Fluxus activities and collaborations that emerged at the intersections of art, music, performance, and literature. The book offers insight into the nature of art in the 1960s as it traces the international development of the collective’s unique intermedia works—including event scores and Fluxbox multiples—that irreversibly expanded the boundaries of contemporary art.

Fluxus Codex

Fluxus Codex
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Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Total Pages : 616
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0810909200
ISBN-13 : 9780810909205
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Synopsis Fluxus Codex by : Jon Hendricks

Fluxus was an art movement of the 1960s and 70s that set out to abolish the canonized art idioms of the day. Pioneers of Conceptual Art and Minimalism, the Fluxus artists were known for their environments, performance art and mass-producible objects. This book is a study of the Fluxus movement.

Flexible History of Fluxus Facts and Fictions

Flexible History of Fluxus Facts and Fictions
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Publisher : Thames and Hudson
Total Pages : 160
Release :
ISBN-10 : UOM:39015047884302
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (02 Downloads)

Synopsis Flexible History of Fluxus Facts and Fictions by : Emmett Williams

Explores the roots and fruits of this radical art movement. Here Emmett Williams turns cartoonist, in the footsteps of Lyonel Feininger, Rube Goldberg, and Ad Reinhardt. His pseudo-historical collage-drawings, digitally remastered by Ann Noel for this edition, are peopled with often-irreverent images of his real-life friends and colleagues. Williams, the oldest living member of Fluxus, assumes the role of know-it-all ringmaster in a three-ring circus that highlights the fanciful antics of the stars of Fluxus, Happenings, and Performance Art: George Maciunas, John Cage, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Joseph Beuys, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, and Williams and Noel themselves. On the left-hand pages, opposite each cartoon, are documents from the author's personal archives relating some of the amusing and unexpected things that really happened in Fluxus events over the years. 140 color illustrations.

Fluxus Forms

Fluxus Forms
Author :
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 301
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780226355085
ISBN-13 : 022635508X
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis Fluxus Forms by : Natilee Harren

“PURGE the world of dead art, imitation, artificial art. . . . Promote living art, anti-art, promote NON ART REALITY to be grasped by all peoples,” writes artist George Maciunas in his Fluxus manifesto of 1963. Reacting against an elitist art world enthralled by modernist aesthetics, Fluxus encouraged playfulness, chance, irreverence, and viewer participation. The diverse collective—including George Brecht, Robert Filliou, Dick Higgins, Alison Knowles, George Maciunas, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Benjamin Patterson, Takako Saito, Mieko Shiomi, Ben Vautier, and Robert Watts—embraced humble objects and everyday gestures as critical means of finding freedom and excitement beyond traditional forms of art-making. While today the Fluxus collective is recognized for its radical neo-avant-garde works of performance, publishing, and relational art and its experimental, interdisciplinary approach, it was not taken seriously in its own time. With Fluxus Forms, Natilee Harren captures the magnetic energy of Fluxus activities and collaborations that emerged at the intersections of art, music, performance, and literature. The book offers insight into the nature of art in the 1960s as it traces the international development of the collective’s unique intermedia works—including event scores and Fluxbox multiples—that irreversibly expanded the boundaries of contemporary art.

Fluxus Administration

Fluxus Administration
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 297
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780226831374
ISBN-13 : 022683137X
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis Fluxus Administration by : Colby Chamberlain

"George Maciunas is typically associated with the famous art collective Fluxus, of which he is often thought to have been the leader. In this book, critic and art historian Colby Chamberlain wants us to question two things: first, the idea that Fluxus was a "group" in any conventional sense, and second, that Maciunas was its "leader." Instead, Chamberlain shows us how Maciunas used the paper materials of bureaucracy in his art-cards, certificates, charts, files, and plans, among others-to subvert his own status as a "figurehead" of this collective and even as a biographical entity. Each of the book's chapters situates Maciunas's artistic practice in relation to a different domain: education, communication, production, housing, and health. We learn about his use of the postal service to make Fluxus into an international network; his manipulation of US copyright law to pursue a "Soviet" ideal of collective authorship; his intervention in Manhattan's zoning restrictions as founder and manager of the "Fluxhouse" artists' lofts in SoHo; and his performances protesting against normative ideals of health and family, focusing on his own, ultimately failed medical self-management. Fluxus Administration is not a biography, but it does delve more deeply than any other book into Maciunas's life and work, showing the lengths to which the artist himself went to disrupt any easy account of himself"--

Fluxus as a Network of Friends, Strangers, and Things

Fluxus as a Network of Friends, Strangers, and Things
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 222
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9789004520967
ISBN-13 : 9004520961
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis Fluxus as a Network of Friends, Strangers, and Things by : Magdalena Holdar

Being based in different countries around the globe, but keen to work together, Fluxus artists developed collaborations based on shared resources and creative autonomy – methods that also gave the artworks agency to perform beyond the control of their originators.

Japan Fluxus

Japan Fluxus
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 177
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781498578264
ISBN-13 : 1498578268
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis Japan Fluxus by : Luciana Galliano

Fluxus was a pivotal movement in redefining art’s role and the artist’s identity in the contemporary world, so that its aesthetics – as well as many of its gimmicks – have become so deeply embedded in our social setting that we now no longer realize where they originally came into being. Fluxus has been described as the most radical and experimental art movement of the 1960s, challenging conventional thinking on art and culture. It had a central role in the birth of such key contemporary art forms as concept art, installation, performance art, intermedia and video. The amount of Fluxus-related scholarly activity has increased since 2009, when New York’s Museum of Modern Art acquired the world’s largest collection of Fluxus works, the Lila and Gilbert Silverman Collection, and this in turn led to a series of exhibitions, first at MoMA and subsequently at other institutions worldwide. Focusing on Japanese artists involved in Fluxus, the book proposes a new understanding of this movement which, in spite of its anti-academicism, its aversion to authorial identity and the ephemeral character of its output, is “the best documented and best cross-indexed art movement in history,” (Nam June Paik 1994, 77). The book presents postwar Japanese radical avant-garde and the related and highly refined discourse and debate behind it, enlightening crucial if less known aspects of (local) Fluxus history and theory.

Natural Born Fluxus - Childhood Event Scores by Fluxus Artists

Natural Born Fluxus - Childhood Event Scores by Fluxus Artists
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Publisher : Lulu.com
Total Pages : 281
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780578003337
ISBN-13 : 0578003333
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis Natural Born Fluxus - Childhood Event Scores by Fluxus Artists by : Cecil Touchon

Natural Born Fluxus is that tendency among artists to engage in Fluxus-like behaviors even if they never heard of Fluxus. Or possibly we could say that Fluxus ideas come out of a naturally occurring tendency in all artists that we now think of as Fluxus. It could be that the free wheeling nature of Fluxus allows artists to enjoy their creative, or at least peculiar, tendencies in an unfettered way that other forms of organized artistic activities do not. Includes: Peter Frank, Cecil Touchon, John M. Bennett, Ruud Janssen, Don Boyd, Keith Buchholz, Adam Overton, Sheila E. Murphy, Madawg, Litsa Spathi, Gregory Steel, Mark Block, Christine Tarantino, Allan Revich, Lorraine Kwan, Matthew Rose, Reid Wood, Luc Fierens, Brad Brace, Mary Campbell, Zachary Scott Lawrence, Bibiana Padilla Maltos, Eric KM Clark, Brian R. Nickerson, Walter Cianciusi, Neil Horsky, Roger Stevens, Matt Taggart, Anya E.V. Liftig, Yves Maraux, Roland Halbritter.

Shock and the Senseless in Dada and Fluxus

Shock and the Senseless in Dada and Fluxus
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Publisher : UPNE
Total Pages : 257
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781584659174
ISBN-13 : 1584659173
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis Shock and the Senseless in Dada and Fluxus by : Dorothée Brill

A groundbreaking analysis of two movements of the historical avant-garde