Tag: Fluxus

Fluxus Forms Scores, Multiples, and the Eternal Network


Free Download Fluxus Forms: Scores, Multiples, and the Eternal Network by Natilee Harren
English | March 4, 2020 | ISBN: 022635492X | True EPUB | 304 pages | 14.4 MB
"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.

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Fluxus As a Network of Friends, Strangers, and Things The Agency of Chance Collaborations


Free Download Magdalena Holdar, "Fluxus As a Network of Friends, Strangers, and Things: The Agency of Chance Collaborations "
English | ISBN: 9004512217 | 2022 | 210 pages | PDF | 21 MB
At the same time whimsical and thought-provoking, Fluxus explored everyday life as an object of art. Behind mundane materials and activities, we find a large network of Fluxus artists who worked together for decades to create and share their art. This publication builds on archival materials that expose the nature of the artists’ working relationships, and methods for collaboration and circulation of artworks. It traces both people and things, exploring how the network expanded and was made solid, from Fluxus’s conception in the 1960s, to the 1990s, when it had eventually left its stealth flight under art history’s radar.

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