New Realism Fluxus Decollage Performance art Happenings Installation art Influence of earlier avant-garde movement, Dada: appropriation, ready-mades, collage, assemblage, blurring boundaries between “art” and “life”, undermining sole authorship Yves Klein, Blue Monochrome, 1961*** Yves Klein, Anthropometries of the Blue Period, 1962*** Yves Klein, Leap into the Void, 1960 *** Pierre Restany (critic), characterized artists involved in New Realism as having : “1. A method of perception and sensible communication in the service of a cosmic intuition; 2. A desire to integrate industrial technique into the metamorphosis of the quotidian; 3. A wish to poetically recuperate the most current forms from the explosion of organized visual languages: posters, advertising, and mass media” Confronting materialism, consumerism, militarism, nationalism (444) Niki de Saint-Phalle, Shooting Picture, 1961 *** Niki de Saint Phalle, Objekt, 1961 Jean Tinguely, Homage to New York, 1960*** Arman, Long Term Parking, 1982*** Cesar, The Yellow Buick, 1961 Mimmo Rotella, Minuit, 1962 Kurt Schwitters, Man soll nicht asen mit Phrasen, 1930 Mimmo Rotella, Marilyn, 1962*** “Marilyn Monroe Doctrine” (444) Mimmo Rotella, Made in Italy, 1963 Jacques de Villegle, 14 Juillet, Décembre, 1961 Jacques de Villegle Martial Raysse , High Voltage Picture, 1965 Martial Raysse, Tableau dans le style Francais, “Installation Art” 1965 Piero Manzoni, Artist’s Breath, 1960 Piero Manzoni, Merde d'artista, 1961*** Piero Manzoni, Achrome, 1959*** Christo, Package, 1961*** Christo, Look, 1965 Christo and Jean-Claude, Wrapped Kunsthalle, 1968*** Fluxus “If man could experience the world, the concrete world surrounding him (from the mathematical ideas to physical matter) in the same way he experiences art, there would be no need for art, artists and similar ‘non-productive’ element” -George Maciunas, FLUXUS founder George Maciunas and Billy Hutching, Fluxus wedding, 1978 George Maciunas, Dick Higgins, Wolf Vostell, Benjamin Patterson & Emmett Williams perform Phillip Corner’s “Piano Activities”, Fluxus International Festival, 1962 George Maciunas, Fluxus Kit, 1963 Joseph Beuys, I like America and America likes me, 1972 Thinking Forms Spoken Forms Social Sculpture “Everyone is an artist” Joseph Beuys, How to explain pictures to a dead hare, 1965*** Joseph Beuys, The Pack, 1969*** Yoko Ono, Cut Piece, 1965 18.19*** Yoko Ono, Yes, 1966 .