About
Poet, composer, printer, and interdisciplinary artist who was part of the Fluxus movement in the 1960s. His publications include On the Composition of Signs and Images and A Dialectic of Centuries: Notes towards a Theory of the New Arts.
Before Fame
He was born in England and raised in New England. In his early adulthood years, he attended the New School of Social Research in New York City.
Trivia
He invented the term "intermedia" to describe the cross-disciplinary work that he and other Fluxus artists carried out.
Family Life
He wed Alison Knowles, also an artist, in 1960. Knowles subsequently gave birth to twin daughters.
Associated With
He studied composition in New York with John Cage.
