Fluxus

A selection of general literature on Fluxus that guides our research:

Allsopp, Ric, Ken Friedman and Owen Smith, eds. 2002. Performance Research: On Fluxus, Vol. 7, No. 3 (September).
Anderson, Simon. 1983. Fluxus: Early Years and Close Correspondences. MA thesis, Royal College of Art, London.
Armstrong, Elizabeth. 1993. “Fluxus and the Museum.” In In the Spirit of Fluxus, edited by Elizabeth Armstrong and Joan Rothfuss, 13-21. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center.
Baas, Jacquelynn. 2011. Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Becher, Jürgen, and Wolf Vostell, eds. 1965. Happenings, Fluxus, Pop Art, Nouveau Réalisme. Hamburg, Germany: Rowohlt.
Block, René. 1983. 1962 Wiesbaden Fluxus 1982: Eine kleine Geschichte von Fluxus in drei Teilen. Wiesbaden, Germany: Harlekin Art.
Block, René, and Tobias Berger. 2002. “What Is Fluxus?” In What’s Fluxus? What’s Not! Why / O que é Fluxus? O que não é! O porquê, edited by Jon Hendricks, 38–43. Rio de Janeiro: Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil; Detroit, Michigan: Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection.
Blom, Ina. 1993. The Intermedia Dynamics: An Aspect of Fluxus. MA thesis, University of Oslo.
Daniels, Dieter. 1991. “Vier Fragen an John Cage.” Fluxus—Ein Nachruf zu Lebzeiten, Kunstforum, Nr. 115: 214.
Decker, Edith. 1988. Paik Video. Cologne: DuMont.
Dezeuze, Anna. 2016. “Brecht for Beginners.” In George Brecht Events: A Heterospective, edited by Alfred Fischer, 20-32. Ludwig Museum: Cologne.
Dezeuze, Anna. 2014. “Origins of the Fluxus Score.” Performance Research: A Journal of the Performing Arts, Vol. Nr. 7, 3:78-94.
Dörstel, Wilfred, Rainer Steinberg, and Robert von Zahn. 1992 “The Bauermeister Studio: Proto-Fluxus in Cologne 1960–62.” In Fluxus Virus, edited by Christel Schüppenhauer, 56–67. Cologne: Gallery Schüppenhauer.
Dumet, Marie. 2017. Corporate Imaginations: Fluxus Strategies for Living. Oakland: University of California Press.
Flynt, Henry. “Concept Art.” 1963. In An Anthology of Chance Operations, Indeterminacy, Improvisation, Concept Art, Anti-Art, Meaningless Work, Natural Disasters, Stories, Diagrams, Music, Dance, Constructions, Compositions, Mathematics, Plans of Actions, edited by La Monte Young, n.p. New York: La Monte Young and Jackson Mac Low.
Filliou, Robert. “GOOD-FOR-NOTHING-GOOD-FOR-EVERYTHING (c. 1962).” In Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists’ Writings, edited by Kristine Stiles and Peter Howard Selz, 854. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012.
Friedman, Ken, ed. 1988. The Fluxus Reader. Chichester: Willey and Sons.
Feldman, Julia Pelta. 2011. “Perpetual Fluxfest: Distinguishing Artists’ Records from Artworks in the Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection Archives.” In Artists’ Records in the Archives: Symposium Proceedings, 31–34. New York.
Harren, Natilee. 2020. Fluxus Forms: Scores, Multiples, and the Eternal Network. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press.
Harren, Natilee. 2022. “The Eternal Metabolic Network: Fluxus, Food, and Ecofeminism.” In Living Matter: The Preservation of Biological Materials in Contemporary Art, edited by Kendra Roth and Rachel Rivenc, 55–63. Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute.
Hendricks, Jon, ed. 1981. Fluxus Etc.: The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection. Bloomfield Hills, MI: Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum.
Hendricks, Jon, ed. 1983a. Fluxus Etc. / Addenda I: The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection. New York: Ink & Press.
Hendricks, Jon, ed. 1983b. Fluxus Etc. / Addenda II: The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection. Pasadena: California Institute of Technology and Baxter Art Gallery.
Hendricks, Jon, ed. 1988. Fluxus Codex. Detroit: Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection in association with H. N. Abrams, New York.
Higgins, Dick. 1967 “Statement on Intermedia (1966).” In De-coll/age, edited by Wolf Vostell. Frankfurt and New York: Typos Verlag and Something Else Press.
Higgins, Dick. 1978. A Dialectic of Centuries: Notes towards a Theory of New Arts. New York: Printed Editions.
Higgins, Hannah. 1994. Enversioning Fluxus: A Venture into Whose Fluxus Where and When. PhD dissertation, University of Chicago.
Higgins, Hannah. 2002. Fluxus Experience, Berkley: University of California Press.
Higgins, Hannah. 2022. “Fluxus with Tools.” In Object—Event—Performance: Art, Materiality and Continuity since the 1960s, edited by Hanna B. Hölling. New York: Bard Graduate Center.
Higgins, Dick, and Hannah Higgins. 2001. “Intermedia. With an Appendix by Hannah Higgins.” Leonardo, Vol. 34, Nr. 1 (February): 49-54.
Holdar, Magdalena. 2023. Fluxus as a Network of Friends, Strangers, and Things : The Agency of Chance Collaborations. Leiden & Boston: Bril.
Hölling, Hanna B. 2015. Revisions—Zen of Film. New York and Chicago: Bard Graduate Center, University of Chicago Press.
Kellein, Thomas. 1994. Fluxus. Basel: Kunsthalle Basel.
Knapstein, Gabrielle. 2002. “Fluxus.” In DuMonts Begriffslexikon zur zeitgenössischen Kunst, edited by Hubertus Butin, 86–90. Cologne: DuMont.
Lushetich, Natasha. 2014. Fluxus and the Practice of Non-Duality. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi.
Maciunas, George and Larry Miller. 1983. “Transcript of the Videotaped Interview with George Maciunas, March 24, 1978 by Larry Miller.” In Fluxus Etc. /Addenda I: The Gilbert and Lilia Silverman Collection, edited by Jon Hendricks. New York: Ink & Press.
Miller, Larry and George Maciunas. 1983. “Transcript of the Videotaped Interview with George Maciunas by Larry Miller, March 24, 1978,” in Addenda I, 10–28.
Hendricks, Jon. 2013. “Watch Out! All Is Not What It Seems to Be.” MoMA’s Post: Notes on Modern and Contemporary Art around the Globe, February 15, 2013, accessed May 20, 2020.
Elligott, Michelle, Miki Kaneda, Julia Pelta Feldman, Gretchen Wagner, 2013. “Archival Workshop at MoMA.” MoMA’s Post: Notes on Modern and Contemporary Art around the Globe, February 15, 2013, accessed May 20, 2020.
Phillpot, Clive. 1988. “Fluxus: Magazines, Manifestos, Multum in Parvo.” In Fluxus: Selections from the Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection, edited by Clive Phillpot and Jon Hendricks, 9–16. New York: Museum of Modern Art.
Phillpot, Clive, and Jon Hendricks, eds. 1988. Fluxus: Selections from the Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection. New York: Museum of Modern Art.
Richter, Dorothee. 2011. “Fluxus: Kunst gleich Leben? Mythen um Autorschaft, Produktion, Geschlecht und Gemeinschaft.” PhD dissertation, University of Bremen.
Riegl, Alois. 1903. Der moderne Denkmalkultus, seine Wesen und seine Entstehung. Wien und Liepzig, W. Braumüller.
Robinson, Julia. 2008/9. “From Abstraction to Model: George Brecht’s Events and the Conceptual Turn in the Art of the 1960s” October No. 27 (Winter).
Robinson, Julia. 2008/9. “From Abstraction to Model: George Brecht’s Events and the Conceptual Turn in the Art of the 1960s.” PhD dissertation, Princeton University.
Robinson, Julia. 2008. “Maciunas as Producer: Performative Design in the Art of the 1960s.” Grey Room, No. 33 (Fall): 56-83.
Ruhé, Harry. 1976. Fluxus: The Most Radical and Experimental Art Movement of the Sixties. Amsterdam:“A.”
Schüppenhauer, Christel. 1992. Fluxus Virus. Cologne: Gallery Schüppenhauer.
Shop, Caroline Lilian. 2018. “Active Duty.” Artforum International, Vol. 56, No. 6 (February): 167-173.
Schmidt-Burkhardt, Astrit, ed. 2003. Maciunas’ Learning Machines: From Art History to Chronology of Fluxus. Berlin: Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection / Vice Versa, Berlin.
Smith, Owen. 1998. “Developing a Fluxable Forum.” In Friedman, The Fluxus Reader, 3–21.
Sohm, Hans, ed. 1970. Happening und Fluxus: Materialien. Cologne: Kölnischer Kunstverein.
Spielmann, Ivonne. 2005. “History and Theory of Intermedia in Visual Culture.” In Intermedia: Enacting the Liminal, edited by Hans Breder, Klaus-Peter Busse, 131-138. Dortmund: Dortmunder Schrifte zur Kunst.
Zycherman, Lynda A. 1995. “Is Fluxus Fluxing and/or Should it be Conserved?” In From Marble to Chocolate: The Conservation of Modern Sculpture, edited by Jackie Heuman, 121-129. London: Archetype Publications Ltd.

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