Hand of the Spirit: Documents of the Seventies from the Morris/Trasov Archive
1994Watson, Scott and Keith Wallace
48 pages (color)
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1935 Naples, Italy - 2024 Nice, France. Known for: Fluxus-Art, Performance, mail-art, text based painting.
"Ben Vautier, Artist Whose Specialty Was Provocation, Dies at 88," The New York Times, by Alex Williams, June 15, 2024. A core member of the anti-art movement Fluxus, he died by suicide hours after... Read full biography
"Ben Vautier, Artist Whose Specialty Was Provocation, Dies at 88," The New York Times, by Alex Williams, June 15, 2024. A core member of the anti-art movement Fluxus, he died by suicide hours after the death of his wife of 60 years. Ben Vautier, a French artist and agitator who often worked under... Read full biography
"Ben Vautier, Artist Whose Specialty Was Provocation, Dies at 88," The New York Times, by Alex Williams, June 15, 2024. A core member of the anti-art movement Fluxus, he died by suicide hours after the death of his wife of 60 years. Ben Vautier, a French artist and agitator who often worked under the moniker Ben, and who as a core member of the anti-art collective Fluxus blurred the boundaries of high and low, art and life, while adhering to the credo “Everything is art,” died on June 5 at his... Read full biography
"Ben Vautier, Artist Whose Specialty Was Provocation, Dies at 88," The New York Times, by Alex Williams, June 15, 2024. A core member of the anti-art movement Fluxus, he died by suicide hours after the death of his wife of 60 years. Ben Vautier, a French artist and agitator who often worked under the moniker Ben, and who as a core member of the anti-art collective Fluxus blurred the boundaries of high and low, art and life, while adhering to the credo “Everything is art,” died on June 5 at his home in Nice, France. He was 88. He died by suicide shortly after his wife, Annie Vautier, a performance artist he married in 1964, died of a stroke, his children, Eva and Francois, posted on social media. “Unwilling and unable to live without her,”... Read full biography
"Ben Vautier, Artist Whose Specialty Was Provocation, Dies at 88," The New York Times, by Alex Williams, June 15, 2024. A core member of the anti-art movement Fluxus, he died by suicide hours after the death of his wife of 60 years. Ben Vautier, a French artist and agitator who often worked under the moniker Ben, and who as a core member of the anti-art collective Fluxus blurred the boundaries of high and low, art and life, while adhering to the credo “Everything is art,” died on June 5 at his home in Nice, France. He was 88. He died by suicide shortly after his wife, Annie Vautier, a performance artist he married in 1964, died of a stroke, his children, Eva and Francois, posted on social media. “Unwilling and unable to live without her,” they wrote, “Ben killed himself a few hours later at their home.”. Theirs was an intense, if tangled, relationship.... Read full biography
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Broken Music: Artists' Recordworks
1989Block, Ursula and Michael Glasmeier278 pages (color)Correspondence Art: Source Book for the Network of International Postal Art Activity
1984Crane, Michael and Mary Stofflet (Editors)522 pagesImage Bank Post Card Show
1977Acconci, Vito et al49 pages (color)