Art Talks: Art of the Avant-Gardes: Barbara Moore and Max Schumann

Scholar Barbara Moore discusses the many forms and cross-disciplinary nature of the 1960s avant-gardes with Printed Matter’s Max Schumann, inspired by the Library’s exhibition "You Say You Want a Revolution."

Often political in nature, movements such as Fluxus, Happenings, and Intermedia blurred the line between art and life and developed into what came to be known as performance art. Founded in 1963, the legendary Something Else Press was known for publishing texts and artwork by Fluxus artists such as Dick Ray Johnson, Alison Knowles, and Allan Kaprow. Moore, who was Something Else’s first editor, joins Schumann to talk about the numerous impulses, attitudes and alternative mediums that groups and movements of the 1960s had in common, particularly in the areas of publishing and performance, despite significant stylistic and theoretical differences.

Moore is the director of the archive of her husband, the late photographer Peter Moore, which includes hundreds of thousands of images chronicling the development of Fluxus, Happenings, Judson Dance Theater, Multimedia, and Intermedia. Schumann is the executive director of Printed Matter, which is dedicated to the dissemination, understanding, and appreciation of artists' books. They will share personal and professional accounts of this revolutionary period in American art history.

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