A flexible history of Fluxus facts and fictions / Emmett Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Emmett.

Contributor:

Noël, Ann.

Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fluxus (Group of artists).

Conceptual art--United States.

Conceptual art.

United States.

Art, American--20th century.

Art, American.

Physical Description:

152 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Edition Hansjörg Mayer ; New York : distributed in the United States and Canada by Thames & Hudson, 2006.

Summary:

Explores the roots and fruits of this radical art movement. Here Emmett Williams turns cartoonist, in the footsteps of Lyonel Feininger, Rube Goldberg, and Ad Reinhardt. His pseudo-historical collage-drawings, digitally remastered by Ann Noel for this edition, are peopled with often-irreverent images of his real-life friends and colleagues. Williams, the oldest living member of Fluxus, assumes the role of know-it-all ringmaster in a three-ring circus that highlights the fanciful antics of the stars of Fluxus, Happenings, and Performance Art: George Maciunas, John Cage, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Joseph Beuys, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, and Williams and Noel themselves. On the left-hand pages, opposite each cartoon, are documents from the author's personal archives relating some of the amusing and unexpected things that really happened in Fluxus events over the years. 140 color illustrations.

Notes:

"70 'Kunstfibel' collages digitally remastered by Ann Noël with commentaries by the artist."

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.

ISBN:

0500976643 :

9780500976647 :

OCLC:

122581055