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New book about Fluxus

PhD in Art history Magdalena Holdar has written the new book Fluxus as a Network of Friends, Strangers, and Things The Agency of Chance Collaborations.

Detail of the cover of Fluxus as a Network och Friends, Strangers, and Things (Brill 2022)
Detail of the cover of Fluxus as a Network och Friends, Strangers, and Things (Brill 2022).

At the same time whimsical and thought-provoking, Fluxus explored everyday life as an object of art. Behind mundane materials and activities, we find a large network of Fluxus artists who worked together for decades to create and share their art. This publication builds on archival materials that expose the nature of the artists’ working relationships, and methods for collaboration and circulation of artworks. It traces both people and things, exploring how the network expanded and was made solid, from Fluxus’s conception in the 1960s, to the 1990s, when it had eventually left its stealth flight under art history’s radar.

This book is volume 6 in the Series Studies in Art & Materiality, at Brill Publishing. The book is available online via Open Access:

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Magdalena Holdar

Magdalena Holdar is PhD and senior lecturer of Art History and Curating at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics. She has an interest in the performative aspects of art and analysis.

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