Re: FLUXLIST: modernist and post-in Dieter Roth [was Re: FLUXLIST: Re: FLUXLIST-digest V2 #473

2000-01-23 Thread George Free
This is not an original thought, but it strikes me that the difference between the modernists and the post-war avantgarde is that the former were concerned with the integral unity or the purity of the artistic object. (E.g., Tschichold talks about the new typography as considering "the blank whit

Re: FLUXLIST: Re: FLUXLIST-digest V2 #473

2000-01-22 Thread Bertrand et Claudia CLAVEZ
Craig wrote: >I have found some tangential connections between Fluxus folks and > Letterists (etc), but nothing really literal (any avtual > connections -- letters/collaborations/meetings? -- that anyone > might know about between Fluxus and CoBrA). Between Fluxus and Cobra, I d'on't know anythi

FLUXLIST: Re: FLUXLIST-digest V2 #473

2000-01-21 Thread csaper
I think Rod summarized the falling out between Jorn and Bill nicely (see Raiding the Icebox by Peter Wollen for more about the specific disagreement' or, Greil Marcus's Lipstick Traces for overview of Letterist activities) ... and Eric's mention of StereoLab's work reminds me of how Jorn has (