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born 1940 United States

Henry Flynt (born 1940 in Greensboro, North Carolina) is a philosopher, avant-garde musician, anti-art activist and exhibited artist often associated with Conceptual Art, Fluxus and Nihilism.

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I surmise that mathematical knowledge amounts to the crystallization of officially endorsed delusions in an intellectual quicksand

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.

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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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Henry Flynt (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.