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Fluxus

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 31 Collections and/or Records:

A Collage in Which Life = Death = Art / Kimmelman, Michael; Johnson R; Beuys J; Cage J; Rauschenberg R; Phillpot C., 2002

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Identifier: CC-39483-41439
Scope and Contents

This is a review of the circumstances of Johnson's death by drowning. His work was exhibited in Feigen Contemporary and a film about him, "How to Draw a Bunny," shown at the Film Forum. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

A Flexible History of Fluxus Facts & Fictions; 70 'Kunstfibel' Collages digitally remastered by Ann Noel / Williams, Emmett ; Noel, Ann ; Cage J ; Oldenburg C ; Maciunas G ; Vostell W ; Ay-O ; Corner P ; Paik NJ ; Beuys J ; Spoerri D ; Tinguely J ; Ben ; Higgins D ; Christo ; Knowles A ; Ono Y ; Moorman C ; Conz F ; Brecht G ; Hansen A ; Hughes P ; Kolar J ; Hendricks G ; Mekas J., 2006

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Identifier: CC-46338-49062
Scope and Contents

Williams writes in his forward, "The fables - on the right-hand pages of the book - came first. Only gradually, after several exhibitions of these far-fetched fictions, did I come to realize that there was at least an iota, a jot or a tittle of truth - and sometimes a big blob of reality - in each and everyone one of them. And here, for the first time, the documentation appears opposite the collages themselves...on the left hand pages, opposite each of the cartoons, are enlightening documents from the author's personal archive relating some of the unlikely things that really happened in Performance Art 'show biz' over the years." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

An Introduction to Book of the Tumbler on Fire , 1978

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Identifier: CC-23789-24237
Scope and Contents

Edited by Henry Martin. "This Sentence is Weightless," a multiple held by the Sackner Archive is reproduced on page 60. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

An Introspective / Hansen, Al ; Hoffmann H ; Cage J ; Artaud A ; Brecht G ; Brus G ; Conz F ; Martin H ; Corner P ; Dine J ; Friedman K ; Ginsberg A ; Hendricks G ; Higgins D ; Hutchinson P ; Kaprow A ; Knowles A ; MacLow J ; Tardos A ; Oldenburg C ; Ox J ; Saito T ; Spoerri D ; Tot E ; Werwerka S ; Whitman R ; Young L ; Zarzeela M., 1996

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Identifier: CC-52526-73654
Scope and Contents This catalogue includes a large number of ephemeral visual/verbal announcements and photographic documentation of happenings. There are several brief essays by artists, poets, and collectors celebrating the life of Hansen who died in 1995. Wikepedia: Alfred Earl "Al" Hansen (5 October 1927 -- 22 June 1995) was an American artist considered as one of the most important Fluxus figures. He was a Norwegian American. Born in New York City, he was a member of the Fluxus art movement and friend to Yoko Ono and John Cage. While serving in Germany in World War II Hansen pushed a piano off the roof of a five story building. This act became the foundation of one of his most recognized performance pieces, the Yoko Ono Piano Drop and inspired artists like Nam June Paik. Hansen was a frequent visitor to The Factory, Andy Warhol's studio in New York. Hansen also studied with and worked with the composer John Cage at the New School for Social Research in New York City. Hansen was perhaps best...
Dates: 1996

Fine Art / Fine, Albert M.; Andersen E; Andre M; Cage J; Cleveland B; Johnson R; Pittore-Eurofico C., 1991

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Identifier: CC-12273-12497
Scope and Contents

Designed and edited by Christian Xatrec. Includes 72 facsimile postcards mailed by Albert Fine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Fluxflakpak / Hansen, Al ; Cage J ; Young L ; Higgins D ; Corner P ; Brecht G ; Ono Y ; Koepcke A., 1983

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Identifier: CC-30927-32382
Scope and Contents

Most of the photocopied material has transferred in part to the polyvinyl looseleaf inserts and cannot be removed without damage. This book documents the artistic biography of Hansen. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Fluxus Etc./Addenda II: The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection / Jon Hendricks, curator ; Brecht G ; Cage J ; Friedman K ; Higgins D ; Knizak M ; Miller L ; Ono Y ; Ben., 1983

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Identifier: CC-11587-11803
Scope and Contents

This exhibition consists mainly of Fluxus instructional drawings, writings and typings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Footnotes: Collage Journal 30 years / Knowles, Alison ; Rothenberg J ; Cage J ; Berner J ; Higgins D ; Breton A ; Corner P ; Quasha G ; Rypson P ; Saito T ; Brecht G ; Conz F ; Andersen E ; Hendricks G., 2000

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Identifier: CC-34701-36404
Scope and Contents

Jerome Rothenberg contributes a pre-face in which he writes that "Footnotes, presented here, is the accounting of where Alison Knowles' feet (and hands and mind) have taken her." The pages of this book are reproductions of notebook pages dating from 1975 to 1995, inscribed and collaged by Knowles. As Knowles herself stated, "It is important to remember that we are free to make art and poetry out of anything: A loaf of bread, some beans, a hasty jotting on the train." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

George Brecht - Notebooks I- II- III / Brecht, George ; Cage J., 1991

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Identifier: CC-39010-40947
Scope and Contents

These facsimile notebooks in Brecht's handwriting are studies for his performance pieces, critical writings, experimental musical scores, poem objects and chance images. One volume is a replica of Brecht's class notes from the summer of 1958 taught by John Cage. Dieter Daniels was the editor with the collaboration of Hermann Braun. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Jean Brown, 82, an Art Collector Called the Den Mother of Fluxus / Smith, Roberta; Brown J; Duchamp M; Cage J; Maciunas G., 1994

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Identifier: CC-02848-2891
Scope and Contents

Obituary of Jean Brown, whose archive inspired the Sackners to focus their collection on concrete and visual poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994