A Bit About Marcel
Marcel Duchamp was not considered to be closely associated with Fluxus. However, as Fluxus owes at least part of its historical significance to Dada, I think that Duchamp's influence needs to be appreciated. Perhaps part of the reason that early Fluxus artists tended to dissociate themselves from Dada was due to early tendencies of art journalists to call Fluxus "Neo-Dada". Fluxus artists in the early days of Fluxus needed to present themselves as something different from Dada and as something new, which they were. However, with the luxury of hindsight, it is clear that while different from Dada, Fluxus shared certain concepts with Dada. Maciuanas called for "anti-art" as did the Dada artists. Fluxus artists made use of "automatic" writing and music techniques based on selective randomness and minimal intervention by the artists. As I see it, one of the biggest differences between Dada and Fluxus is that Fluxus replaced the pessimistic nihilism of Dada with optimism and humor.Marcel Duchamp with his "ready-mades" fits in with the Fluxus propensity towards mixing humor and serious theory. The ready-mades may have been precursors to the Fluxkits and other Fluxus objects. Duchamp too, by the 1960s had stopped making art in any traditionally recognizable form and had turned to playing chess as his sole means of artistic expression. This activity can be viewed as being analogous to a Fluxus event.
three comments:
Paper on Duchamp:
http://www.mmbeyer.com/Papers/Art_Histor..
Michael Beyer () (URL) - 26 11 05 - 01:55
Did Fluxus Die?
Aideen () - 18 02 06 - 18:31
Fluxus did not die.
Fluxus lives.
Allan (URL) - 19 02 06 - 14:38
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