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- Al Hansen
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Al Hansen was an American artist and performer central to the Fluxus movement of the 1960s. Working across performance, installation, and mixed media, he created event scores and participatory works that prioritized chance, absurdity, and audience involvement over conventional art objects. His practice encompassed mail art, sound works, and ephemeral interventions that challenged the boundaries between art and everyday experience. Hansen's output resisted institutional documentation, reflecting his commitment to art as a contingent, anti-commercial gesture rooted in the postwar avant-garde.
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Andy Warhol Book, June 1984
1984 · Watercolor over photocopies on white wove paper attached at edges in "flutter book" fashion (except for the first four pages), housed in portfolio-type cover bearing a watercolor over photocopy with graphite on spine, and inserted into a gray slipcase
Hunting Fantasy
1979 · Cut-and-pasted printed papers on particle board
Elegance!
1979 · Cut-and-pasted printed paper and matchstick on paper
dé-coll/age, no. 6
1967 · Periodical, offset printed
Poster for First World Congress: Happenings, St. Mary's of the Harbor, New York, August 30 & September 1, 1965
1965 · Letterpress
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- Museum of Modern Art
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