Henry Flynt
Henry Flynt
Henry Flyntis a philosopher, avant-garde musician, anti-art activist and exhibited artist often associated with Conceptual Art, Fluxus and Nihilism...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArtist
CountryUnited States of America
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I was trying to be up with the latest thing. To a point, I just took what I was offered, logical positivism in philosophy.
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The whole drive of western culture, the part of it which is serious, is towards an extreme objectification. It's carried to the point where the human subject is treated almost as if it's dirt in the works of a watch.
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Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.
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A fully open mind could shatter the skull in both directions.
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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.
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I'm actually a great fan of lucidity.
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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.
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When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating.
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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.
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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.
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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.