Alison Knowles

Alison Knowles ( born 1933 in New York) is an American artist of the Fluxus movement.

Life and work

Alison Knowles studied at the Pratt Institute painting with Josef Albers, Adolph Gottlieb and Richard Lindner and completed her studies there in 1954. In 1962, she traveled with Dick Higgins, whom she married in 1960, to Europe to participate in the first, organized by George Maciunas Fluxus events.

Her work includes book objects such as the Big Book (1967 ) - a " walk-in " book that abbildete Knowles ' own living environment in New York - the Book of Bean ( 1983) for the Venice Biennale and the early Multiple Bean Rolls (1963 ) were packed in the texts on beans as a "canned book" in a can ..

With her husband Dick Higgins, it is one of the founding members of the Fluxus movement and gained numerous Fluxus performances like The Identical Lunch (1969 ) or Make a Salad (1962). Other works include the sound art or were conceived as radio plays, such as that produced by WDR beans sequences (1982 ), for which she was awarded the Karl Sczuka price. Alison Knowles lives in New York.