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Corporate imaginations : fluxus strategies for living / Mari Dumett
| Material Type | Books |
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| Publisher | Oakland, California : University of California Press |
| Year | c2017 |
| Language | English |
| Size | viii, 386 p. : ill. ; 27 cm |
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| Contents | A fantastic confusion The great executive dream Performing the system George Brecht : scoring events Robert Watts : engineering objects Nam June Paik : art for cybernated life Alison Knowles : ritual and routine Mieko Shiomi : the artistic globalism of Fluxus |
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| Notes | Includes bibliographical references and index Summary: "The first extended study of the renowned artists' collective Fluxus, Corporate Imaginations examines the group's emergence on three continents from 1962 to 1978, and its complexities, contradictions, and historical specificity. Its founder, George Maciunas, organized Fluxus like a multinational corporation, simulating corporate organization and commodity flows, a reflection of how he imagined critical art practice at that time. Despite the collective's critical stance toward the corporation, Fluxus shared aspects of the rising corporate culture of the day. In this book, Mari Dumett addresses the "business" of Fluxus and explores the larger discursive issues of organization, mediatization, routinization, automation, commoditization, and systematization that Fluxus artists both manipulated and exposed in bold relief. A study of six central figures in the group--George Brecht, Alison Knowles, Maciunas, Nam June Paik, Mieko Shiomi, and Robert Watts--reveals how they developed historically specific strat |
| Authors | Dumett, Mari author |
| Subjects | LCSH:Fluxus (Group of artists) LCSH:Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Themes, motives All Subject Search |
| Classification | LCC:N6494.F55 DC23:709.04 |
| ID | 1000027586 |
| ISBN | 9780520290389 |
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