Henry Flynt

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Henry Flynt

Henry Flynt (* 1940 in Greensboro , North Carolina ) is an American avant-garde artist whose diverse activities include philosophy, mathematics, economics, music and the visual arts.

life and work

Flynt is associated with the art movements Conceptual Art and Fluxus . As early as 1961 he coined the term concept art , which, however, is to be regarded as a genre of its own. The reception of Flynt's concept art in the German-speaking area is made more difficult by the fact that the conceptual art propagated in the second half of the 1960s by actors such as Joseph Kosuth or the art dealer, curator and publisher Seth Siegelaub is generally translated as conceptual art. This usage of language essentially follows Klaus Honnef's first German monograph on the phenomenon of conceptual artistic practices with the misleading title Concept Art (Cologne 1971), in which Flynt is typically not mentioned. In this respect, it is wrong to call Flynt a pioneer of conceptual art, if this term refers to what is canonical today. As a temporary member of a sectarian left group, the Workers World Party, he fought against institutions of bourgeois culture such as museums and opera houses.

Fonts (selection)

  • Concept-Art Translated and introduced by Nicolas Feuillie, Les presses du réel, Avant-gardes, Dijon 1962
  • Concept Art. In: La Monte Young (ed.): An Anthology. 1st edition, New York 1963
  • Concept Art (revised). In: La Monte Young (ed.): An Anthology. 2nd edition, New York 1970

Exhibitions

  • Henry Flynt. Activities 1959 - . Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia, Düsseldorf, October 6, 2012 to January 20, 2013 and ZKM - Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, March 2 to May 12, 2013
  • Christophe Levaux, (2015) "Henry Flynt et la réinvention des racines culturelles", tacet 4.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Essay: Concept Art. In: www.henryflynt.org. Retrieved September 23, 2016 .
  2. ^ Klaus Honnef: Concept art . Phaidon-Verlag, Cologne 1971, ISBN 3-87635-035-2 .
  3. ^ Henry Flynt: Activities 1959– | 2013-05-12 | ZKM. In: zkm.de. Retrieved September 23, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Flynt, Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American avant-garde artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Greensboro , North Carolina