A Network of Experience: Community Building and Social Restructuring in Fluxus

Author

Margaret Sherer, Washington University in St. LouisFollow

Date of Award

Spring 5-2016

Author's School

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Author's Department

Art History & Archaeology

Degree Name

Master of Arts (AM/MA)

Degree Type

Thesis

Abstract

My thesis argues that the group dynamic of Fluxus and the artwork produced by the group functioned as agents in the cultivation and maintenance of a Fluxus community that developed an experimental, object-based approach to societal formation. I argue that a primary goal of Fluxus was to use their artistic production and their association to establish alternative modes of social interaction that were simultaneously plagiarizing and criticizing conventional social and political institutions.

Language

English (en)

Chair and Committee

Angela Miller

Committee Members

Ila Sheren, Meredith Malone

Comments

Permanent URL: https://doi.org/10.7936/K79C6VQV

Recommended Citation

Sherer, Margaret, "A Network of Experience: Community Building and Social Restructuring in Fluxus" (2016). Arts & Sciences Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 716.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/art_sci_etds/716