Gianni Emilio Simonetti
Fluxus Arte per Tutti
158 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English/Italian edition. This book offers an in-depth analysis of the prominent role Italy came to play in the Fluxus movement, which emerged in the late 1950s. It explores the editorial experience of Fluxus, the creation of “editions” – objects, graphics, artists’ books – and the important role this had in the movement’s spread. Inexpensive to produce and easy to distribute, these works were accessible to the wider public and in turn contributed to the F…
John Cage - Silence Happening
*2024 stock* Anthology of Cage's "protominimalist" compositions, from "Prelude for meditation" of 1944 to 1952, the year of the silent piece 4'33". In between beautiful and magical pages such as "In a landscape" and "A room"... Performers Boris Berman, Paul Hillier, Juan Hidalgo and others.
Fluxus Again! A History of a Radical Experience 1952-1962-2022
Fluxus was a cultural, visual, and social adventure that began in 1962. Far from wanting to be a nostalgic celebration, 1962 is not offered here as a starting year, but as the first landing on a journey that began a decade before, in 1952, thanks to John Cage at Black Mountain College.During the Sixties, linguistic and formal experiments emerge in a teeming fervor, poised between Europe, the United States and Japan, in an innovative paradigm, extraneous to the aesthetic conventions experienced u…