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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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.