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Scope and Contents Pedersen is cited four times in Fluxus Codex as a producer of Fluxus material. "Divide Denmark" is not mentioned. Wikipedia: Knud Pedersen was born in 1925, in the small Danish town of Grenå. His career as a public figure started in 1942, when he, together with nine other young Danes, founded the resistance group Churchill Klubben (The Churchill Club). After the war, he turned to the world of arts and culture when he excelled as an organiser. After many a sabotage action and the best part of World War II spent in prison, Pedersen turned to the arts, partly as an artist, but mainly as an organiser. His dream was to make art available to everyone, and to this end he launched several projects. In 1952 he got permission from the authorities to set up Byens billede, the Picture of the City, an empty frame in which paintings could be exhibited. In 1957 he founded his Kunstbibliotek, or Art Library, an art rental space where people could rent a painting for the price of a packet of...