Hi Roger,
Well, if we're going to do this:
You wrote:
>how about...
>>Fluxus was an international art movement which began in Germany in the
>1960s >and quickly spread to New York and northern European capitals.
Similar
>activities were taking place in Japan and California.<
Fluxus was an international art phenomenon that saw no boundary between art
and everyday life. It began in the paradigm for creative activity created by
certain artists towards the end of the 1950s only permanently gaining the
label Fluxus in 1962. This paradigm was principally defined by the
inspirational ideas of John Cage and Marcel Duchamp together with an
appreciation for humour and the popular culture of the time. As time went on
Fluxus grew and grew and more and more artists all over the world adopted
this paradigm.
Now, this is not a very good attempt. What would be wonderful is if a good
Fluxus historian like Owen Smith were to write this (Owen?). What I have a
problem with writing is the geography of this description. As far as I can
see this is problematic because Fluxus didn't begin in one place, it was
only permanently named in one place (I say permanently because Maciunas
already had the name Fluxus in New York but he hadn't actually called
anything Fluxus until Wiesbaden. In fact if the newspaper coverage of that
1962 first Fluxus Festival hadn't referred to those "Fluxus people" in its
outraged columns then the name may not have stuck, who knows.
Anyway Roger, I know that I will make glaring errors if I try to amend what
you've written so I'm hoping that Owen will step in and work out a succinct
way of doing this little paragraph. Although I have read quite widely on
Fluxus I'm no art historian and really don't have the necessary qualities to
write this kind of thing well, since we have experts like Owen on this list
I hope we can utilise their talents :-)
cheers,
Sol.
