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The first text from the wild and wonderful mind of Henry Flynt, published in decades. "Three Essays on Spirituality and Art", issued in a beautifully produced edition of 500 copies, takes on a rarely explored subject in contemporary context, seeded in the anti-authoritarian positions that Flynt laid down at the dawn of Fluxus and has embraced ever since. Radical, vibrant, and fascinating, before us rests an essential illumination of the inner workings of one of the most important figures in experimental music that can't be missed.

Three Essays on Spirituality and Art caries on from the anti-authoritarian positions that Flynt laid down at the dawn of Fluxus and have remained steadfast within his thinking over the years since, revealing a mind as contentiously invested in smashing institutionalized thinking within history and artistic practice as he was at the beginning. Taking the position that there are two forms of spirituality, the affirmative and the ruinous, Three Essays delves into Flynt’s ideas on affirmative spirituality, he begins with the ancient Indian theatrologist and musicologist, Bharata-Muni, as a precedent and nods to Aristotle’s Poetics, as he lays an analytical groundwork for the topic within the arts, ranging from the sensitization of artistic languages, splendor, the dubiously revered, and commercial successes.

Heady, wild, and wonderful as Flynt always is, these essential texts illuminate the radical contemporary thinking of one of the most important figures in experimental music. Clocking in at 196 pages, and issued in a beautiful edition that has been co-edited by Joao Simoes and Christian Xatrec, this one is an absolute must.

Published by João Simões, Lisboa

Typeset by Ana Baliza in Linotype Univers

500 copies, softcover, 193 pp.

Printed and bound in Portugal