For a Concrete Radicality: Henry Flynt Against the Avant-Garde
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2178-0447.ars.2021.184218Keywords:
Henry Flynt, Art and Politics, Experimental Music, Neo-Avant-Garde, MarxismAbstract
Relegated to footnotes in the history of Fluxus and the post-Cage scene in New York, Henry Flynt developed from 1960 to 1966 a critical approach to the avant-garde from a revolutionary stance, looking for answers to questions which his peers apparently ignored. We work here with three texts which radicalized a critical discourse against the avant-garde, going from a formalistic critique to a total critique of Marxist and anti-colonial character. These three moments are presented in "rounds", one for each confrontation with the avant-garde, passing through its formal, social and political structures, in a route that goes from the abstract to the concrete and is manifested in a revolutionary praxis.
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