Alison Knowles
Alison Knowles (born April 29, 1933 in New York ) is an American artist of the Fluxus movement.
life and work
Alison Knowles studied painting with Josef Albers , Adolph Gottlieb and Richard Lindner at the Pratt Institute and graduated there in 1954. In 1962 she traveled to Europe with Dick Higgins , whom she married in 1960, to take part in the first Fluxus events organized by George Maciunas .
Her work includes book objects such as the Big Book (1967) - a "walk-in" book depicting Knowles' own living environment in New York - the Book of Bean (1983) for the Venice Biennale and also the early Multiple Bean Rolls (1963 ), in which texts about beans were packed into a tin can as a “canned book”.
With her husband Dick Higgins, she is one of the founding members of the Fluxus movement and has worked on numerous Fluxus performances such as The Identical Lunch (1969) and Make a Salad (1962). Other works belong to sound art or were conceived as radio plays , such as the Bohnen Sequenzen (1982) produced by WDR , for which she received the Karl Sczuka Prize . Some of her works are exhibited in the museum FLUXUS + in Potsdam. Alison Knowles lives in New York.
literature
- René Block , Gabriele Knapstein (concept): A long history with many knots. Fluxus in Germany. 1962-1994. Institute for Foreign Relations , Stuttgart 1995
References
- ↑ Julia Robinson: " The sculpture of indeterminacy: Alison Knowles's beans and variations ", in: Art Journal , Winter 2004
Web links
- Literature by and about Alison Knowles in the catalog of the German National Library
- Alison Knowles website
- Alison Knowles at artfacts.net
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Knowles, Alison |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American artist of the Fluxus movement |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 29, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | new York |