Cecil Touchon Born 1956 Austin, Texas is a contemporary American collage artist, painter, published poet and theorist living in Fort Worth, Texas. Co-founder of the International Post-Dogmatist Group, Touchon is director of the group's Ontological Museum, Founder of the International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction and founder of the International Society of Assemblage and Collage Artists. As a visual artist, Touchon's work is widely collected and shown through an international network of commercial art galleries. 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nickname: Live Music Capital of the World, ATX Official website: www. ... Look up Artist in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Nickname: Cowtown Motto: Official website: ci. ... This article is about the philosophical meaning of ontology. ... The National Gallery in London, a famous museum. ...

Cecil Touchon and Post-Dogmatism

Touchon co-founded the International Post-Dogmatist Group (IPDG) in 1987. The IPDG boasts several hundred members from around the world. Primarily an alternative to a post-modernist view of the world, the group's writings suggest that creativity and artistic pursuits must be based in a recognition of the spiritual underpinnings of all human activities. The IPDG addresses itself to the art world through a presentation of itself as the 'official avant-garde' creating an elaborate bureaucratic structure of outlandish sounding offices through which the various members communicate simulating 'the establishment' as a form of parody. Postmodernism (sometimes abbreviated pomo) is a term applied to a wide-ranging set of developments in critical theory, philosophy, architecture, art, literature, and culture, which are generally characterized as either emerging from, in reaction to, or superseding, modernism. ...

Cecil Touchon and Fluxus

In 2005 an exhibition was held in Cuernavaca, Mexico entitled "Cecil Touchon - Thirty Years of Fluxing Around" in which art works and scores dating as early as 1975 were exhibited showing the fluxus tendency in Touchon's work over the last thirty years. Touchon has never been formally associated with the Fluxus group until the year 2000 with his participation in the Fluxlist - an email group where the current generation fluxus artists interact and collaborate. In 2002 Touchon, with a number of other artists from the Fluxlist established the FluxNexus - a group of artists working together on various new Fluxus projects including a new fluxus performance workbook. Fluxus (from to flow) is an art movement noted for the blending of different artistic disciplines, primarily visual art but also music and literature. ... Cuernavaca is the capital city of the state of Morelos in Mexico. ... Fluxus (from to flow) is an art movement noted for the blending of different artistic disciplines, primarily visual art but also music and literature. ...

Cecil Touchon and Massurrealism

Touchon is a key figure among the Massurrealists and is featured in the 2004 book Massurrealism: A Dossier (a.k.a Massurrealismus: Ein Dossier, Zurich: Novus Haus. ISBN: 0975992309) with both essays and poetry. Examples of Touchon's sound collages entitled Massurrealist Meditations were featured in a Berlin, Germany exhibition entitled "Almost Believable" ("Beinah Glaubwürdig") at the Kunstzentrum Massurreal - A New Media art exhibit from the portfolios of Domenic Ali, Jochen Brennecke, Tess Cortes, Alan King, Melanie Marie Kruezhof, Chip Simons, James Seehafer, Cecil Touchon curated by James Seehafer. Key Massurrealist concepts explored by Touchon in various forms of visual, audio and literary collage techniques involve his theories related to what he calls the Massurreality - an overarching popular culture mind world maintained by daily exposure to mass media. The term massurrealism was coined by artist James Seehafer in 1992 and is sometimes referred to as a post-modernist movement but is more properly identified as an artistic tendency. ...

External Links

• Cecil Touchon's Official Website
• The FluxNexus
• The FluxCase
• The International Post Dogmatist Group
• The International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction
• The Ontological Museum
• Massurrealist.com
• Sears-Peyton Gallery in New York

Quotations

SHUT OP AND PAINT! Post Dogmatist Rule of Order