Henry Flynt

Henry Flynt was born in 1940 in Greensboro, North Carolina. He is a philosopher, musician, anti-art activist and exhibited artist, whom unsympathetic reviewers often link to Fluxus. In 1960, with the first draft of "Philosophy Proper," he arrived at what he would later call cognitive nihilism, the basis of his contributions. The work proposed to refute analytic philosophy and logical positivism with their own means. In 1961, he coined the term concept art to refer to "an art of which the material is concepts, as the material of for ex. music is sound." Concept art's first appearance in a book was in An Anthology, ed. La Monte Young. In 1962, Flynt announced his anti-art position in connection with "general acognitive culture," later "veramusement," finally "brend." Flynt's early texts achieved only scattered publication unitl they were collected in his book Blueprint for a Higher Civilization (Milan, 1975).

External links

• Henry Flynt: Philosophy
• Henry Flynt Interviewed by Kenneth Goldsmith on WFMU February 26, 2004 (3 hours)
• Fluxus: Henry Flynt:ACTION AGAINST CULTURAL IMPERIALISM
• http://www.citypaper.com/2002-06-05/music.html
• Locust Music