Felt : Fluxus, Joseph Beuys, and the Dalai Lama, Paperback by Thompson, Chris, ISBN 0816653550, ISBN-13 9780816653553, Brand New, Free shipping in the US

Fluxus is a global art movement most prominent from the early 1960s through the late 1970s, anti-commercial and Dadaist in nature, inspired by artists such as Marcel Duchamp and founded around the likes John Cage, Yoko Ono, and controversial German artist Joseph Beuys. Building upon a brief, unrecorded meeting between Beuys and the Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, and drawing upon metaphors of the age old material, felt, Thompson (art history, Maine College of Art) presents a loose history of the Fluxus movement, many of its members, and the influence of Eastern philosophy on its artistic vision and production. He illustrates how, like felt, the movement was made up of individual strands which through unexpected processes become part of a strong and cohesive whole, whether or not they ever directly contact each other. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()