Fluxbooks: Fluxus Artist Books from the Luigi Bonotto Collection
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| Rating | : | 4.38 (782 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 8867491148 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 295 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-21 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Drawing on the Luigi Bonotto Collection and including works by George Maciunas, Wolf Vostell, John Cage, Alison Knowles, Dick Higgins, George Brecht, Allan Kaprow, Jackson Mac Low, György Ligeti and many others, this extensively illustrated volume presents the publications with minimal critical commentary, allowing the books themselves to narrate their nature and development.. As books took on the character of events, expected to do more than merely contain thoughts and images, they exceeded the structure of the traditional book format and mutated into boîtes, containers, binders and boxes. Fluxbooks, the first detailed study of the artist's book within the Fluxus movement, presents Fluxus as the site of some of the most productive and irreverent transformations of the book medium in art history. These books offered artists fuller autonomy in the production of their own work and opportunities for broader distribution, a