Felt : Fluxus, Joseph Beuys, and the Dalai Lama / Chris Thompson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thompson, Chris, 1975-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935-.

Beuys, Joseph.

Fluxus (Group of artists).

Beuys, Joseph--Friends and associates.

Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935---Friends and associates.

Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho.

Friends and associates.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 319 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Fluxus, Joseph Beuys, and the Dalai Lama

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2011]

Summary:

Fluxus is a global art movement most prominent from the early 1960s through the late 1970s, anti-commercial and Dadaist in nature, inspired by artists such as Marcel Duchamp and founded around the likes John Cage, Yoko Ono, and controversial German artist Joseph Beuys. Building upon a brief, unrecorded meeting between Beuys and the Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, and drawing upon metaphors of the age old material, felt, Thompson (art history, Maine College of Art) presents a loose history of the Fluxus movement, many of its members, and the influence of Eastern philosophy on its artistic vision and production. He illustrates how, like felt, the movement was made up of individual strands which through unexpected processes become part of a strong and cohesive whole, whether or not they ever directly contact each other. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Intrigue : toward the scripting of intimate space

Interhuman intermedia

Rate of silence

Entanglement. What happens when nothing happens

Overgave.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780816653546

0816653542

9780816653553

0816653550

OCLC:

671491818