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Henry Flynt

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Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just decided there was nothing utopian about it.


— Henry Flynt


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Basically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste, and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator.


— Henry Flynt


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I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating the music into visual terms.


— Henry Flynt


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I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one picked up on the intellectual critique I made.


— Henry Flynt


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I have a picture of an ideal consciousness.


— Henry Flynt


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I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.


— Henry Flynt


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I'm actually a great fan of lucidity.


— Henry Flynt


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I'm trying to assemble materials for a different mode of life.


— Henry Flynt


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In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with that technological modification. I began to have a tremendous problem with all of this.


— Henry Flynt


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Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.


— Henry Flynt


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Thus he demonstrated against cultural institutions in New York City (such as MOMA and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts) with Tony Conrad and Jack Smith in 1963 and against the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen twice in 1964. In fact he is a strong critic of the neo-Dada sensibility. The "Indian" element is the background of hypnotic tamboura drones but Flynt's improvisation at the violin betrays the influence of jazz music.

Henry Flynt (born 1940 in Greensboro North Carolina) is a philosopher avant-garde musician anti-art activist and exhibited artist often associated with Conceptual Art Fluxus and Nihilism.

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