The Fluxus Reader
Published on 1. October 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
X, 310 pages
978-0-471-97858-9 (ISBN)
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The Fluxus Reader Fluxus began in the 1950s as a loose, international community of artists, architects, composers and designers. By the 1960s, Fluxus has become a laboratory of ideas and an arena for artistic exprmentation in Europe, Asia and the United States. Described as the most radical and experimental art movement of the 1960s', Fluxus chaqllenged conventional thinking on art and culture for over four decadese. It had a central role in the birth of such key contemporary art forms as concept art, installation, performance art, intermedia and video. Despite this influence, the scope and scale of this unique phenomenon have made it difficult to explain Fluxus in normative historical and critical terms. The Fluxus Reader offers the first comprehensive overview on this challenging and controversial group. The Fluxus Reader is written by leading scholars and experts from Europe and the United States. It is edited by Ken Friedman, a Fluxus artist as a sixteen-year-old university student in 1996 and now Associate Professor of Leadership and strategic design at the Norwegian School of Management, Oslo, where he also directs the Nordic Center for Innovation.
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THREE HISTORIES. Developing a Fluxable Forum: Early Performance and Publishing (O. Smith). Fluxus, Fluxion, Flushoe: The 1970s (S. Anderson). Fluxus Fortuna (H. Higgins). THEORIES OF FLUXUS. Boredom and Oblivion (I. Blom). Zen Vaudeville: A Medi(t)ation in the Margins of Fluxus (D. Doris). Fluxus as a Laboratory (C. Saper). CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES. Fluxus History and Trans-History: Competing Strategies for Empowerment (E. Milman). Historical Design and Social Purpose: A Note on the Relationship of Fluxus to Modernism (S. Foster). '5A Spirit of Large Goals': Fluxus, Dada and Postmodern Cultural Theory at Two Speeds (N. Zurbrugg). THREE FLUXUS VOICES. Transcript of the Videotaped Interview with George Maciunas (L. Miller). Selections from an Interview with Billie Maciunas (S. Jarosi). Maybe Fluxus (A Para-Interrogative Guide for the Neoteric Transmuter, Tinder, Tinker and Totalist) (L. Miller). TWO FLUXUS THEORIES. Fluxus: Theory and Reception (D. Higgins). Fluxus and Company (K. Friedman). 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. Index.