In the Spirit of Fluxus (1993, signed copy)

Scottish conceptual artist Robert Montgomery's signed copy

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Printing Details

First softcover edition. Large paperback in wrapper. 30 × 23cm, 192pp.

Signed by Scottish conceptual artist Robert Montgomery in blue ink to the upper cover beneath the dust jacket, indicating his personal copy.

Published to accompany a major retrospective touring the Walker Art Center, the Whitney Museum of American Art, MCA Chicago, and SFMOMA, this landmark catalogue was built substantially around the Walker’s extensive holdings of Fluxus objects, event scores, multiples, and archival ephemera. it remains one of the core standard critical texts for the international Fluxus movement and 1960s/70s avant-garde and experimental performance art.

The volume provides a rigorous critical framework examining George Maciunas’s central role alongside the movement's anti-art aesthetics, intermedia interventions, mail art, and performance "event scores." Heavily illustrated throughout with colour and black-and-white archival photographs, event posters, Fluxboxes, and primary source documents, its scholarship masterfully bridges early neo-Dada activities with the broader history of post-war visual art, experimental film, and avant-garde sound.

Condition

The book and wrapper have light edgewear but essentially the book is in very sound condition, with clean pages and secure binding. An apt association piece linking Montgomery’s text-based public interventions with the foundational Fluxus tradition.

ISBN

093564041X