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Fluxus forms scores, multiples, and the eternal network Natilee Harren

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Author:
Harren, Natilee  Search this
Physical description:
1 online resource (278 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) illustrations (some color)
Type:
Electronic resources
Electronic books
History
Date:
2020
20th century
Notes:
Prelude: the artwork in Flux -- Diagramming form, from graphic notation to the Fluxus event score -- Of drips, diagrams, and immanent form: Fluxus in the wake of abstract expressionist painting -- George Brecht and the notational object -- George Maciunas, Fluxboxes, and the transitional commodity -- Objects without object: Robert Filliou and the unworking of Fluxus -- Coda: The Fluxus virtual, actually
Elecresource
ELEC copy Purchased from the ARTS Libraries Endowment.
Summary:
"A history of the understudied but highly inventive Fluxus collective founded in NYC in the late 1950s/early 1960s. Fluxus was an unruly, endlessly shifting gang of performers, conceptual writers, musicians, and installation artists who wanted to integrate life into art using found and ordinary objects and processes (like cooking and shaving). Fluxus first arose in the United States under the leadership of George Maciunas and quickly spread to Europe. Artists from Claus Oldenberg to Allan Kaprow to Dick Higgins to Allison Knowles to Joseph Beuys to Gerhard Richter to Nam June Paik to Yoko Ono to Robert Filliou all participated in Fluxus at some point. Unlike other books about Fluxus, this one explores not just the movement itself but also how it figures the transition from modernism to postmodernism, and the historical origins of experimental art practices of the present"-- Provided by publisher
Topic:
Fluxus (Group of artists)  Search this
Art, Modern  Search this
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--History  Search this
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)  Search this
Call number:
N6494.F55 H37 2020 (Internet)
Restrictions & Rights:
1-user.
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1145679