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American musician (born 1940)

Person · Open Library

Born
1675
Died
1760
Works
11

Top works

  • The diary of Tutor Henry Flynt of Harvard College
  • Righteousness and uprightness recommended, from the high regards, which the righteous Lord shews thereto
  • When the godly cease, and faithful fail; we must seek to God for help
  • Twenty sermons
  • The doctrine of the last judgment

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Henry Flynt was born in 1940 in Greensboro, NC. 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 con

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  • Concept art is first of all an art of which the material is concepts, as the material of e.g. music is sound. Since concepts are closely bound up with language, concept art is a kind of art of which the material is language.
  • I surmise that mathematical knowledge amounts to the crystallization of officially endorsed delusions in an intellectual quicksand
  • Basically, at this time, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another persons taste and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator.

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www.henryflynt.org
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Henry Flynt
date of birth
1940-01-01
start of work period
1960-00-00
end of work period
1987-01-01
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