Fluxus Essays

  • Joseph Beuys Art

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    time-based "action" art. With his time-based “actions”, Beuys suggested how art might exercise a healing property on both the artist and the audience when psychological, social, and political are the influence. Beuys was a crucial member in the 1960s Fluxus movement, along with his contemporaries Yoko Ono and Nam June Paik. During the movement, many artists befell dissatisfied with the traditional standard of heroic, religious, or rather object-oriented painting and sculpture that had been long in place

  • The Difference Between Modernism And Minimalism

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    In some instances we can review a selected group of artists all of which interpret humanity and set views and philosophy’s of existentialism. In other ways these particular set of artists sought out to project ideas of the human within artistic practice, whether it be through emotive language or aesthetically through form. A particular artist whose intention was to seek out the human form in an affirmative way was Henry Moore. Moore was an avant-gardist and very much like a humanist and a surrealist

  • Pipilotti Rist and Virtual Utopia

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    Within new media, there exists the desire and possibility to produce new effects upon the viewer, to grant new experiences. Pipilotti Rist seeks the creation of virtual utopias within the limitations of the video medium in installations such as her recent work at the Museum of Modern Art, Pour Your Body Out (7354 Cubic Meters) in 2009. The work transforms the typically bare atrium of the Museum of Modern Art into an active environment, where a reciprocal relationship between the viewer and the

  • Summary Of TV Bra For Living Sculpture By Nam June Paik

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    Nam June Paik’s performance art piece entitled TV Bra for Living Sculpture was one of Paik’s more influential works whose subject matter centered on the progression of technology. Performance art, which is a theatrical way of staging art, was a specialty of Paik’s. He was an essential pioneer in the crusade to incorporate moving images into artistic mediums, a seriously radical invention of the twentieth century. Paik was renowned for his ability to present serious content in radical self-parodies

  • Ears Have Walls by Steven Connor

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    Intro: In Steven Connor’s ‘Ears Have Walls: On Hearing Art’ (2005) Connor presents us with the idea that sound art has either gone outside or has the capacity to bring the outside inside. Sound work makes us aware of the continuing emphasis upon division and partition that continues to exist even in the most radically revisable or polymorphous gallery space, because sound spreads and leaks, like odour. Unlike music, Sound Art usually does not require silence for its proper presentation. Containers

  • Performance Art Research Paper

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    time have utilised and refrecnced the body within performance art. Beginning with happenings and fluxus art and moving through time to the post human   mostly interdisciplinary until dematerialisation   it will discuss a select number of themes and movements   the body is the most relatable object/subject to human kind       Dada artists first

  • Analysis Of Nam June Paik

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    Introduction Are we sure to use technology to achieve a better life, to help to ease our work, to be more safe fast and efficient? Or is technology the one who is shaping our society, towards a fast process of globalization where we loose our cultural identity in name of progress and a better life? When technology becomes a product of mass consumption this is a legitimate question. Can we switch off our computer, our mobile and TV set and still consider ourselves not disconnected from the rest

  • Surrealist Found Art

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    Without Hugo Ball creating this movement many arts that were later being introduced would not have been established without Dada being introduced. Further arts such as Surrealism, Cubism Situationist International, Performance art, Feminist art, and Minimalism would not had the outcome that they had without Dada ( The Art Story). Surrealism's arts were more artistic than the Dada's art, and it was also none violent- more calm (The Origins of Surrealism). Even though the concept of Surrealism is

  • The Impact Of Yoko Ono And John Lennon

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    style pertained to her friends, other artists and social movements. When it comes to her art styles, she focused many categories such as happenings, fluxus, performance art and conceptual art. ‘Happening’ art is simply a display of artworks in an art gallery or in a small locale. It is often staged and the audience may or may not participate. A ‘fluxus’ is a type of network of artists that thrived in the 1960s that would venture into art forms such as performances and music. This type of art was mostly

  • Joseph Beuys Fliz-TV Visual Analysis

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    objective and subjective aesthetic visual concepts of American art forms such as pop art and its ideals of commercialism, and abstract expressionism with its use of subject based on human emotion, Buyes was seen as being a part of the movement known as Fluxus a group of artists that attempted to move away from the avant-garde art forms that were dominating the 50s and 60s. The 11 minute video that was aired showed Buyes sitting in front of a television that has a felt pad covering the screen that is turned

  • Joseph Cornell: Collecting Art

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    Joseph Cornell Collecting art is about looking at the world around you and collecting objects, image and ideas. The point of this essay is to prove why artists explore collective art making approaches to communicate meaning. A perfect example of a collector would be Joseph Cornell. Joseph Cornell was born in New York. He was the oldest child of four including two sisters, Elizabeth and Helen, and a brother, Robert who suffered from cerebral palsy. Cornell dedicated his life to caring for Robert

  • Process Essay – How to Name a Cow

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    reference books for variation. An alternative approach: Instead of names, give your cows words. Paint a word or phrase on each cow. (Nontoxic cold-cream-based finger paint works well for this.) As your cows arrange themselves in a field, in a sort of fluxus tradition, they create an artful type of found poetry. Your cows can be your art. All in all, research your possibilities; milk your sources. If you are religious, pray, and ask for guidance. Ask your friends. Ask your grandmother. (If you ask

  • The Influence of Beck

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    Campbell, was a conductor and string arranger giving Beck his strong musical background. His mother, Bibbe Hansen, was an actress who went as far as to work with such artists as Andy Warhol. Also, his grandfather, Al Hansen, was involved with the Fluxus art movement and was best known for launching the career of Yoko Ono. Beck grew up mostly in Los Angeles, also spending some time in Europe and in the Kansas City area with both of his sets of grandparents. A seemingly bad decision to drop out

  • History Of Abstract Expressionism

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    Experienced in European Modernism and becoming dull to the American Realism popular at the time, Abstract Expressionists became a new type of expression that gave permission to artist to have flow of their own emotion onto the canvas. They accomplished this goal by turning down the traditions of illusionistic painting in favor of their own individual spot. Abstract Expressionists were different from others they expressed their feelings/or emotions straight on a canvas, or by explorations with color

  • Yoko Ono Analysis

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    How the artists Yoko Ono and Joan Jonas, challenge spectatorship through exploring the female body within their works: ‘Cut Piece’ 1964 and ‘Mirror Check’ 1970? Within this essay performance and feminist art movements will be examined, referring to the opportunities which feminist art created and the relationship between the viewer and the artwork. Through this essay the focus will be on the body as the primary medium through the works of: Yoko Ono and Joan Jonas. By analysing the role of the female

  • Landscape Urbanism

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    CASE: Le Corbusier’s Venice Hospital and the Mat Building Revival, Prestel, pp. 118-126. Cranz, G & Boland, M 2004, ‘Defining the Sustainable Park: A Fifth Model for Urban Parks’, Landscape Journal, vol. 23, pp. 102-120. Corner, J 2006, ‘Terra Fluxus’, in C Waldheim (eds) The Landscape Urbanism Reader. Princeton Architectural Press, New York, pp. 21-33 Livesey, G 2009, ‘A Look at Landscape Urbanism’, Canadian Architect, viewed 23 May 2011, < http://www.canadianarchitect.com/issues/story.aspx

  • Artists Books

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    In searching for articles related to artists’ books I was able to identify four main categories. In the first category there are articles from people in the field of book arts. Book artists, instructors and curators for example Drucker (1995) , Smith (2005) and Carothers (2000).The second category are articles that examined the potentials of book arts in teaching for example McGuire (2007) and ?? . The third category are articles from librarians, scholars at schools of information and library science