Fluxus Experience

Name: Fluxus Experience
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ISBN: 9780520228672

ISBN-10: 0520228677

ISBN-13: 9780520228672

Edition: 2003

Authors: Hannah Higgins

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In this groundbreaking work of incisive scholarship and analysis, Hannah Higgins explores the influential art movement Fluxus. Daring, disparate, contentious--Fluxus artists worked with minimal and prosaic materials now familiar in post-World War II art. Higgins describes the experience of Fluxus for viewers, even experiences resembling sensory assaults, as affirming transactions between self and world. Fluxus began in the 1950s with artists from around the world who favored no single style or medium but displayed an inclination to experiment. Two formats are unique to Fluxus: a type of performance art called the Event, and the Fluxkit multiple, a collection of everyday objects or…

Book details

List price: $36.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 12/12/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 278
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English

Hannah B Higginsis Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the author ofFluxus Experience(UC Press). Douglas Kahnis Professor of Media and Innovation at the National Institute of Experimental Arts (NIEA) at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He is the coeditor ofSource: Music of the Avant-garde(UC Press).



Acknowledgments


Preface


Introduction


I. Information and Experience


II. Charting Fluxus: Picturing History


III. Experience in Context: Fluxus, Happenings, Conceptual and Pop Art


IV. Great Expectations: A Reception Typology


V. Teaching and Learning as Art Forms: Toward a Fluxus-Inspired Pedagogy


Notes


Figures


Index