The Fluxus Reader

Author : Ken Friedman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1998-11-18
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015048773132

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The Fluxus Reader by Ken Friedman Pdf

Part I. Three histories : Developing a fluxable forum: Early performance & publishing / Owen Smith -- Fluxus, fluxion, flushoe: the 1970's / Simon Anderson -- Fluxus fortuna / Hannah Higgins -- Part II. Theories of Fluxus: Boredom and oblivion / Ina Blon -- Zen vaudeville: a medi(t)ation in the margins of Fluxus / David T. Doris -- Fluxus as a laboratory / Craig Saper -- Part III. Critical and historical perspectives: Fluxus history and trans-history: competing strategies for empowerment / Estera Milman -- Historical design and social purpose: a note on the relationship of Fluxus to modernism / Stephen C. Foster -- A spirit of large goals: fluxus, dada and postmodern cultural theory at two speeds -- Part IV. Three Fluxus voices : Transcript of the videotaped Interview with George Maciunas -- Selections from an interview with Billie Maciunas / Susan L. Jarosi -- Maybe Fluxus (a para-interrogative guide for the neoteric transmuter, tinder, tinker and totalist) / Larry Miller -- Part V. Two Fluxus theories : Fluxus : theory and reception / Dick Higgins -- Fluxus and company / Ken Friedman -- Part. VI-- Documents of Fluxus : Fluxus chronology : key moments and events -- A list of selected Fluxus art works and related primary source materials -- A list of selected Fluxus sources and related secondary sources.

Author : Dick Higgins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 1938221206

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Intermedia, Fluxus and the Something Else Press: Selected Writings by Dick Higgins by Dick Higgins Pdf

Dick Higgins and his Something Else Press epitomized the riotous art of the '60s There are few art-world figures as influential--and as little known--as Dick Higgins (1938-98), cofounder of Fluxus, "polyartist," poet, scholar, theorist, composer, performer and, not least, the publisher of the legendary Something Else Press. In 1965 he restored the term "intermedia" to the English language, giving it new dimension to recognize the dissolution of boundaries between traditional modes of art-making and the open field for new forms that cannot be compartmentalized. His own contributions to intermedia are many--as a participant and instigator of happenings, as writer and composer straddling traditional and vanguard forms, among others--but it was Something Else Press (1963-74) that redefined how "the book" could inhabit that energized, in-between space. Something Else Press was as much a critical statement and radical experiment as it was a collection of books by some of the most luminary artists and writers of the 20th century: Gertrude Stein, John Cage, Ray Johnson, Dieter Roth, Bern Porter, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Emmett Williams, Robert Filliou, and George Brecht, among many others. Along with his Great Bear Pamphlet series and the Something Else newsletter, Higgins exploited and subverted conventional book production and marketing strategies to get unconventional and avant-garde works into the hands of new and often unsuspecting readers. Edited by Granary Books publisher Steve Clay and Fluxus artist Ken Friedman, this judiciously curated and indispensable compendium of essays, theoretical writings and narrative prose dives deep into the ever-influential ideas that Higgins explored in theory and practice. Clay and Friedman have chosen works that illuminate Higgins' voracious intellectual appetite, encyclopedic body of knowledge and playful yet rigorous experimentation in a selection that includes many writings long out of print or difficult to find.

Author : Hannah Higgins
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002-12-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520228672

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Fluxus Experience by Hannah Higgins Pdf

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.

Author : Hood Museum of Art
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art, Modern
ISBN : 0226033597

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Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life by Hood Museum of Art Pdf

Exhibition schedule: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: April 16-August 7, 2011; Grey Art Gallery, New York University: September 9-December 3, 2011; University of Michigan Museum of Art: February 25-May 20th, 2012.

Author : Marcia Reed
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606066621

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Fluxus Means Change by Marcia Reed Pdf

An exploration of the radical artists who transformed the ways art is conceived, exhibited, and collected, through the Dada, Surrealist, and Fluxus collections of Jean and Leonard Brown. Throughout the 1960s, Jean and Leonard Brown used their radical tastes, prescient instincts, and friendships with artists to assemble an extensive archive of Dada and surrealist publications and prints—including works by Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, and Tristan Tzara. After Leonard’s death in 1970, Jean’s attention turned to Fluxus and other contemporary genres. Jean also established a site of alternative art production at her Shaker Seed House in Tyringham, Massachusetts, where she invited artists to engage with her collections. Fluxus works embraced the social and political critiques of earlier avant-garde artists and questioned the authority of the increasingly powerful contemporary art world of critics, collectors, curators, and gallerists. This examination of artists and their antiestablishment demands for change shows how their art was created, performed, exhibited, and collected in new ways that intentionally challenged traditional modes. By providing an expanded understanding of avant-garde and Fluxus artists through the lens of the Jean Brown Archive at the Getty Research Institute, this volume demonstrates the profound influence these artists had on contemporary art.

Author : Yoko Ono
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2000-10-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780743201100

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Grapefruit by Yoko Ono Pdf

"With a new introduction by the author"--Jkt.

Author : Kyo Maclear
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781554537815

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Mr. Flux by Kyo Maclear Pdf

A tongue-in-cheek tale loosely inspired by the 1960s Fluxus art movement finds Martin and his neighbors confronting their fears about change when an eccentric newcomer demonstrates how change can be big or little or even small enough to fit in a not-so-scary box.

Author : Lori Waxman
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783956795954

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Keep Walking Intently by Lori Waxman Pdf

Author : Martin Patrick,Dorothee Richter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Art, Modern
ISBN : 9798478092658

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Fluxus Perspectives by Martin Patrick,Dorothee Richter Pdf

Author : Mari Dumett
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520290389

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Corporate Imaginations by Mari Dumett Pdf

The first extended study of the renowned artists’ collective Fluxus, Corporate Imaginations examines the group as it emerged on three continents from 1962 to 1978 in its complexities, contradictions, and historical specificity. The collective’s founder, George Maciunas, organized Fluxus like a multinational corporation, simulating corporate organization and commodity flows, yet it is equally significant that he imagined critical art practice in this way at that time. For all its avant-garde criticality, Fluxus also ambivalently shared aspects of the rising corporate culture of the day. In this book, Mari Dumett addresses the “business” of Fluxus and explores the larger discursive issues of organization, mediatization, routinization, automation, commoditization, and systematization that Fluxus artists both manipulated and exposed. A study of six central figures in the group—George Brecht, Alison Knowles, George Maciunas, Nam June Paik, Mieko Shiomi, and Robert Watts—reveals how they developed historically specific strategies of mimicking the capitalist system. These artists appropriated tools, occupied spaces, revealed operations, and, ultimately, “performed the system” itself via aesthetics of organization, communication, events, branding, routine, and global mapping. Through “corporate imaginations,” Fluxus artists proposed “strategies for living” as conscious creative subjects within a totalizing and increasingly global system, demonstrating how these strategies must be repeated in an ongoing negotiation of new relations of power and control between subject and system.

Author : Mary Flanagan
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-08
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262518659

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Critical Play by Mary Flanagan Pdf

An examination of subversive games like The Sims—games designed for political, aesthetic, and social critique. For many players, games are entertainment, diversion, relaxation, fantasy. But what if certain games were something more than this, providing not only outlets for entertainment but a means for creative expression, instruments for conceptual thinking, or tools for social change? In Critical Play, artist and game designer Mary Flanagan examines alternative games—games that challenge the accepted norms embedded within the gaming industry—and argues that games designed by artists and activists are reshaping everyday game culture. Flanagan provides a lively historical context for critical play through twentieth-century art movements, connecting subversive game design to subversive art: her examples of “playing house” include Dadaist puppet shows and The Sims. She looks at artists’ alternative computer-based games and explores games for change, considering the way activist concerns—including worldwide poverty and AIDS—can be incorporated into game design. Arguing that this kind of conscious practice—which now constitutes the avant-garde of the computer game medium—can inspire new working methods for designers, Flanagan offers a model for designing that will encourage the subversion of popular gaming tropes through new styles of game making, and proposes a theory of alternate game design that focuses on the reworking of contemporary popular game practices.

Author : David Getsy
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 0271037032

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From Diversion to Subversion by David Getsy Pdf

"Examines the wide-ranging influence of games and play on the development of modern art in the twentieth century"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Liz Kotz
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780262514033

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Words to Be Looked At by Liz Kotz Pdf

A critical study of the use of language and the proliferation of text in 1960s art and experimental music, with close examinations of works by Vito Acconci, Carl Andre, John Cage, Douglas Huebler, Andy Warhol, Lawrence Weiner, La Monte Young, and others. Language has been a primary element in visual art since the 1960s—in the form of printed texts, painted signs, words on the wall, recorded speech, and more. In Words to Be Looked At, Liz Kotz traces this practice to its beginnings, examining works of visual art, poetry, and experimental music created in and around New York City from 1958 to 1968. In many of these works, language has been reduced to an object nearly emptied of meaning. Robert Smithson described a 1967 exhibition at the Dwan Gallery as consisting of “Language to be Looked at and/or Things to be Read.” Kotz considers the paradox of artists living in a time of social upheaval who use words but chose not to make statements with them. Kotz traces the proliferation of text in 1960s art to the use of words in musical notation and short performance scores. She makes two works the “bookends” of her study: the “text score” for John Cage's legendary 1952 work 4'33”—written instructions directing a performer to remain silent during three arbitrarily determined time brackets—and Andy Warhol's notorious a: a novel—twenty-four hours of endless talk, taped and transcribed—published by Grove Press in 1968. Examining works by artists and poets including Vito Acconci, Carl Andre, George Brecht, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth, Jackson Mac Low, and Lawrence Weiner, Kotz argues that the turn to language in 1960s art was a reaction to the development of new recording and transmission media: words took on a new materiality and urgency in the face of magnetic sound, videotape, and other emerging electronic technologies. Words to Be Looked At is generously illustrated, with images of many important and influential but little-known works.

Author : Anna Dezeuze
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-15
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215526398

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The 'Do-it-Yourself' Artwork by Anna Dezeuze Pdf

Viewers of contemporary art are often invited to involve themselves actively in artworks. Spanning a range of practices, this anthology sheds light on the history and specificity of artworks that only come to life when the you - the viewer - are invited to 'do it yourself'.

Author : Magdalena Holdar
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004520967

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

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.