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Henry Flynt (born 1940 in Greensboro, North Carolina) is an American philosopher, musician, writer, activist, and artist connected to the 1960s New York avant-garde. He coined the term "concept art" in the early 1960s, during which time he was associated with figures in the Fluxus scene.
Henry Flynt is an original philosopher and opponent of traditional science and mathematics. He has called for a higher civilization based on incredulity and the mutability of the experiential world.
Oct 2, 2012 · Henry Flynt is a mathematician, musician, artist, and philosopher who coined the term “concept art” in 1961. He also protested against “Serious Culture” and composed music with Catherine Christer Hennix. His retrospective, “Activities 1959–,” is on view in Germany.
- Julian Elias Bronner
Henry Flynt. ESSAY: CONCEPT ART. [As published in An Anthology (1963). Errors are corrected and punctuation is normalized.] "Concept art" is first of all an art of which the material is "concepts," as the material of for ex. music is sound.
Henry Flynt was born in 1940 in Greensboro, NC. He is a philosopher, musician, anti-art activist and exhibited artist. Flynt’s work devolves from what he calls “cognitive nihilism,” first announced in the 1960 and 1961 drafts of Philosophy Proper.
Henry Flynt (Greensboro, NC, 1940) is a philosopher, composer, and artist. In 1960 and 1961 he announced some of the ideas that have occupied him ever since, including concept art.
This chapter discusses traces the path taken by the maverick composer, philosopher and activist Henry Flynt in the early 1960s, from a position at the heart of New York's downtown avant‐garde community, to his radical repudiation of the avant‐garde under the influence of the Marxist‐Leninist Workers World Party (WWP).
