Intermedia: Volume 6 Frohne Ursula
Intermedia: Volume 6 Frohne Ursula The history of innovative intermedia art practices in America.In 1965, American artist and Fluxus cofounder Dick Higgins stated that much of the best art being made…
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Intermedia: Volume 6 Frohne Ursula
The history of innovative intermedia art practices in America.In 1965, American artist and Fluxus cofounder Dick Higgins stated that much of the best art being made at the time fell between media. After high art, he wrote, came the deluge brought on by Marcel Duchamp's ready-mades, Robert Rauschenberg's combines, and Alan Kaprow's happenings. He linked the dismantling of divisions among media to decompartmentalization in society and the impending dawn of a "classless" society.
In intermedia, boundaries between mediums dissolve and new mediums emerge. Intermedia, the term Higgins selected to describe this trend, referred to works of art that fuse different, often nontraditional, media. Never a prescriptive term, intermedia remains fluid, both as an artistic practice and an art historical category.The essays in this volume consider a range of subjects from nineteenth-