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Fluxus is often pegged the "other tradition" of the twentieth century avant-garde, the irrational alternative to high modernism's fixation on form, structure and dogma. Watts and Kaprow inherited this position from Marcel Duchamp, father of Dada and first to insist that "the viewer completes the work of art...
Memorable are two early paintings by Kaprow, both of which reveal his abstract expressionist training: "Hysteria," a visually assaulting assemblage of painted fragments and mirrors, and "Rearrangeable Panels," a series of nine wall-sized panels which have been presented in any number of concatenations. Though each panel is derivative of...
The curators also include examples of Watts's subversion of three consumerist and capitalist systems: the bureaucratic system in his attempt to patent the word "pop" and his collection of all "pop"-related patents, the postal system in his endeavor to circulate his own stamps and the monetary system in...
Though sterilized in the gallery environment, Watts's game-based compositions and verbal pieces are centerpieces. Pieces such as "Frog Game" and samples from the Yam Festival newsletter, commemorating a year-long arts festival in 1963-4 which began and ended in May (Yam backwards), offer an intriguing glimpse at...
Maybe most of our moral opinions are formed by emotions and aesthetic reactions. My opinion is this: Capital punishment has lost its moral meaning. Having lost its moral meaning, it has become as immoral as any other expression of violence. And therefore we should stop doing it.