The first survey of the Fluxus cofounders prolific avantgarde output from eightfoottall books to makeasalad performancesThe American artist Alison Knowles born 1933 groundbreaking experimentsfrom painting and printmaking to sculpture and installation sound works poetry and artists bookshave influenced art and artists for more than 50 years but remain relatively unknown among mainstream audiences. The first comprehensive volume on the artist By Alison Knowles A Retrospective presents more than 200 objects that span the entire breadth of her career from her intermedia works of the 1960s to forms of participatory and relational art in the 2000s.The accompanying catalog features contributions by international Fluxus curators historians and scholars including lead essays by organizer Karen Moss Hannah B. Higgins and Nicole Woods and short contributions by coeditor Lucia Fabio Lauren Fulton Maud Jacquin and Sbastien Pluot. It also includes reprints of key articles by Benjamin Buchloh Julia Robinson and Kristine Stiles as well as a conversation between Alison Knowles and poet George Quasha. Richly illustrated with more than 250 images the fullcolor catalog designed by Kimberly Varella includes a softcover layflat binding special colored papers for each section diecut section dividers and a chronology. The cover of the book is a makeready press sheets gathered from printing the interior of the book produced during the printing of the interior pages. Each cover in the edition is unique.