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Ben Patterson: In the State of Fluxus

Ben Patterson: In the State of Fluxus

Patterson, Benjamin
Oliver, Valerie Cassel
Oliver, Valerie Cassel

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ISBN10: 1933619295
ISBN13: 9781933619293
Publisher: Contemporary Arts Museum Houst
Published: Jul 31 2012
Pages: 260
Weight: 3.15
Height: 1.00 Width: 9.40 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
Performing and visual artist Ben Patterson (born 1934) was a founding member of Fluxus' participatory, do-it-yourself, anticommercialist avant-garde network. While many Fluxus artists, influenced by John Cage's precedent, employed conceptual techniques borrowed from music (e.g., the event score), Patterson's fusion of art and music was informed by his background as a classically trained double-bassist. His Variations for Double Bass (1960), for example, was played with the titular instrument balanced upside down on its scroll. Published for a retrospective at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, this volume includes an anthology of Patterson's scores, edited by Fluxus scholar Jon Hendricks; a chronology of the artist's life and work; a CD compilation of his musical performances from 1961 to 2009, produced by Alga Marghen; and essays by a variety of scholars, assessing the career of one of Fluxus' foremost and wittiest artists.

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