Poetic Obituaries: American poet Emmett Williams,

a founder of the Fluxus movement of performance-oriented, avant-garde art of the 1960s, died at the age of 81 in Berlin.

Williams became a prominent part of the European faction of the Fluxus movement with its first performance festival in Wiesbaden, Germany, in 1962, The New York Times said.

from The New York Times: Emmett Williams, 81, Fluxus-Movement Poet, Dies

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