In the Spirit of Fluxus

by Simon Anderson, Walker Art Center, Andreas Huyssen (Contributor)

In the Spirit of Fluxus is published on the occasion of the exhibition "In the Spirit of Fluxus," organized by Elizabeth Armstrong and Joan Rothfuss. Essays by Simon Anderson, Elizabeth Armstrong, Andreas Huyssen, Bruce Jenkins, Douglas Kahn, Owen F. Smith, and Kristine Stiles. The exhibition originated on February 14, 1993 at the Walker Art Center and traveled to the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), the Wexner Center of the Visual Arts, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Fundacio Antoni Tapies.

Genres: Art

191 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 1993

Reviews

[Megija Milberga · Rating 4 out of 5]

“Regardez-moi, cela suffit, je suis art.” Ben Vautier

[Tentatively, Convenience · Rating 5 out of 5]

I like any publication re Fluxus. Of the 3 I have, this is the only one w/ an explanatory thread. It's nice seeing how much chaos there still is connected to Fluxus to this day. It's interesting to see so many folks lumped together under the Fluxus umbrella. I wonder how many even felt that strongly affiliated? All of them? 50%? Fluxus was & is amorphous. The umbrella leaks, the umbrella blows away, the umbrella comes back b/c it misses somebody or another, the umbrella is friendly. The umbrella changes size to meet needs, it gets bigger to cover its friends, it gets smaller to challenge them, it shrinks to a dot & hides as a period on a little card of prose intructions.