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 inexpensive printed cards collected in a box that viewers explore privately. Higgins examines these two setups to bring to life the Fluxus experience, how it works, and how and why it's important. She does so by moving out from the art itself in what she describes as a series of concentric circles: to the artists who create Fluxus, to the creative movements related to Fluxus (and critics' and curators' perceptions and reception of them), to the lessons of Fluxus art for pedagogy in general. Although it was commonly associated with political and cultural activism in the 1960s, Fluxus struggled against being pigeonholed in these too-prescriptive and narrow terms. Higgins, the daughter of the Fluxus artists Alison Knowles and Dick Higgins, makes the most of her personal connection to the movement by sharing her firsthand experience, bringing an astounding immediacy to her writing and a palpable commitment to shedding light on what Fluxus is and why it matters.
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"Higgins bravely argues for the experiential, life-affirming qualities of Fluxus, combining theory and practice in a most sophisticated, engaging, and refreshing manner. She situates Fluxus in the context of American art history as well as international art practices, while exploring sense-related theory in enticing accounts of her own observations of and participation in Fluxus works." - Kathy O'Dell, author of Contract with the Skin: Masochism, Performance Art, and the 1970s "Higgins provides a new, refreshing way of seeing the politics within and around Fluxus, exposing the politically charged press coverage of the movement and dismantling its prejudicial legacy. Higgins represents a new generation of Fluxus scholars who are impatient with the objective pose and historical rigidity of academic art history." - Simon Anderson
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Hannah Higgins is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Illinois, Chicago.
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Now Fluxus Makes Sense
10 Jun 2003
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Finally, Fluxus makes sense and takes its rightful place as a tremendously important avant-garde movement with huge influence on art, artists and art history. Higgins makes a complex theoretical argument easy to grasp for the informed reader. I bounced from and moved through "Ah ha's" to "I didn't know that was Fluxus" to "I didn't know he/she was Fluxus" to "I get it now." The influence of Fluxus is now everywhere I look.
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An Excellent Experience
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By Allan Revich
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This book is probably the best "first resource" for learning about, and understanding Fluxus. Hannah Higgins had the unique experience of growing up as the daughter of two Fluxus luminaries, Dick Higgins and Allison Knowles. But in addition to having the advantage of a front row seat to the Fluxus experience, she has also written a thoughtful and well-researched book. The book contains some nice illustrations, and has a very readable, flowing narrative. While the writing style is not overly academic, it is also not a "coffee table" or picture book, and readers not used to college level language may find it difficult.
The Fluxus Experience gives George Maciunas due respect as a founder of Fluxus, and as the man who gave Fluxus its name - but Hannah's unique perspective gives much more credit (deservedly) to artists like Dick Higgins who continued to keep Fluxus vibrant and alive after Maciuanas died in 1978.
I would recommend this book to anybody interested in learning more about what Fluxus was, what Fluxus contributed to the world's creative culture, and how Fluxus continues to influence artists around the world today.
The Fluxus Experience gives George Maciunas due respect as a founder of Fluxus, and as the man who gave Fluxus its name - but Hannah's unique perspective gives much more credit (deservedly) to artists like Dick Higgins who continued to keep Fluxus vibrant and alive after Maciuanas died in 1978.
I would recommend this book to anybody interested in learning more about what Fluxus was, what Fluxus contributed to the world's creative culture, and how Fluxus continues to influence artists around the world today.
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Scholarly is the Operative Word
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If you're looking for an interesting overview of Fluxus with color illustrations, this is not your book. The format is small paperback, 8" x 6", writing is in dry academic style that may put you to sleep, and the photos are few, small, grainy, and black & white. I am even disappointed with the cover of the book, which plastic coating started delaminating within weeks of receiving the book.
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