Harvard Art Museums > 2006.6: Fluxfest Prints Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Fluxfest (Ida Griffin)(Larry Baldwin)(Jeff Berner) , 2006.6,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 26, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/5853. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 2006.6 People Ida Griffin, American Larry Baldwin, American? Jeff Berner, American (born 1940) Title Fluxfest Classification Prints Work Type print Date 1967 Places Creation Place: North America, United States, California, San Francisco Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/5853 Physical Descriptions Technique Lithograph Dimensions 46 x 34 cm (18 1/8 x 13 3/8 in.) Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Gil Einstein and Anne MacDougall Accession Year 2006 Object Number 2006.6 Division Modern and Contemporary Art Contact am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Description The Fogg owns one Maciunas-published Fluxus edition by Ben Berner (M26383), the "director" of the Fluxfest advertised on this poster. Commentary This poster introduces a particularly "West Coast" invocation of Fluxus into the collection. The event advertised aligns Fluxus with the avant-garde performance group the San Francisco Mime Troupe (who, it should be noted, do not perform pantomime but instead consider themselves 'mimics', satirists of contemporary life and its absurdities) and San Francisco acid-rock band Quicksilver Messenger Service. While poster's hybrid visual style of psychedelia-influenced art nouveau would likely have been anathema to George Maciunas's rigorously monochromatic, absurdist functionalism, it testifies both to the flexibility of the "Fluxus" moniker and to the fact that during the 1960s a range of experimental practices coexisted within the larger formation of "counterculture". The graphics are the work of Ida Griffin, wife of the famous psychedelic artist Rick Griffin. The poster was printed at Berkeley-Bonaparte, the distribution agency Griffin founded in 1967 with Alton Kelley, Stanley Mouse, Victor Moscoso and Wes Wilson, all important psychedelic artists. Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art at am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
