Description
Book SynopsisThis work explores the influential art movement Fluxus. Daring, disparate and 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 as affirming transactions between self and world.
Trade Review"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
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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
