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
latest logical took trying
I was trying to be up with the latest thing. To a point, I just took what I was offered, logical positivism in philosophy.
skulls mind open-mind
A fully open mind could shatter the skull in both directions.
backing-away utopian decided
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.
avant-garde students painting
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.
term translate composing
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.