Fluxus Means Change: Jean Brown's Avant-Garde Archive

Exhibition at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, 18 May - 3 October 2021

Throughout the 1960s, Jean and Leonard Brown used their radical tastes to assemble an extensive archive of Dada and Surrealist publications and prints-including works by Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, and Tristan Tzara. After her husband's death in 1970, Jean Brown's attention turned to Fluxus and other contemporary genres.

Fluxus works embraced the social and political critiques of earlier avant-garde artists and questioned the authority of the increasingly powerful contemporary art world of critics, collectors, curators, and gallerists.

By providing an expanded understanding of avant-garde and Fluxus artists through the lens of the Jean Brown Archive at the Getty Research Institute, this exhibition catalogue demonstrates the profound influence these artists had on contemporary art.