Born of necessity in 1961, fathered by George Maciunas and mothered by the rejection of high art and commerical values, the anti-art Fluxus movement is here recorded with encyclopedic thoroughness. With historical essays by Fluxus artists including George Brecht, Robert Filliou, Dick Higgins, Allan Kaprow, Per Kirkeby, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, and Maciunas, and critical passages by Arthur Danto, Joan Rothfuss, and others, this book questions what it asks, in true Fluxus fashion.
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Born in New York in 1926, George Brecht was one of the most influential artists of the 1960s in New York, where he became involved with the experimental group of artists associated with Fluxus, including John Cage, Walter de Maria and George Maciunas. To his art, he brought a background in research chemistry, statistics and oriental philosophy, and he was also very much inspired by the Dadaist Tristan Tzara. He incorporated music, time and space in his work, often presenting simple, randomly arranged objects and calling on the viewer to bring their own experiences to the work, to interact with the object, to rearrange elements, or to do nothing. Some of Brecht's notable contributions to the Fluxus movement include Word Events and Fluxkits.
Nam June Paik was born in 1932 in Seoul, Korea. He moved to New York from Germany in 1964, and by the late 60s was at the forefront of a new generation of artists creating an aesthetic discourse out of television and the moving image. Throughout the 70s and 80s, Paik also worked as a teacher and an activist, supporting other artists and working to realize the potential of the emerging medium of video. Along with his remarkable sequence of videotapes and projects for television--featuring collaborations with friends Laurie Anderson, Joseph Beuys, David Bowie, John Cage, and Merce Cunningham--he created a series of installations that fundamentally changed video and redefined artistic practice.
Arthur C. Danto is the Johnsonian Professor Emeritus of Philosphy at Columbia University in New York and the art critic for The Nation. He is widely published in the fields of both art criticism and philosophy.
Nam June Paik was born in 1932 in Seoul, Korea. He moved to New York from Germany in 1964, and by the late 60s was at the forefront of a new generation of artists creating an aesthetic discourse out of television and the moving image. Throughout the 70s and 80s, Paik also worked as a teacher and an activist, supporting other artists and working to realize the potential of the emerging medium of video. Along with his remarkable sequence of videotapes and projects for television--featuring collaborations with friends Laurie Anderson, Joseph Beuys, David Bowie, John Cage, and Merce Cunningham--he created a series of installations that fundamentally changed video and redefined artistic practice.
Arthur C. Danto is the Johnsonian Professor Emeritus of Philosphy at Columbia University in New York and the art critic for The Nation. He is widely published in the fields of both art criticism and philosophy.
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