The first survey of the Fluxus cofounder-s prolific avant-garde output, from eight-foot-tall books to make-a-salad performances
The American artist Alison Knowles- (born 1933) groundbreaking experiments-from painting and printmaking to sculpture and installation, sound works, poetry and artist-s books-have influenced art and artists for more than 50 years but remain relatively unknown among mainstream audiences. The first comprehensive volume on the artist, By Alison Knowles: A Retrospective presents more than 200 objects that span the entire breadth of her career, from her intermedia works of the 1960s to forms of participatory and relational art in the 2000s.
The accompanying catalog features contributions by international Fluxus curators, historians and scholars, including lead essays by organizer Karen Moss, Hannah B. Higgins and Nicole Woods, and short contributions by co-editor Lucia Fabio, Lauren Fulton, Maud Jacquin and S-stien Pluot. It also
