| Neo-Dadaist, performance and conceptual artist James Lee Byars was born
April 10, 1932, in Detroit, Michigan. He studied art and
philosophy at Wayne State University, and attended the Merrill Palmer
School for Human Development, both in Detroit, 1948-1956. For a
one-day thesis exhibition in 1955, Byars displayed large, spherical
stones in his family's house, from which he removed all furniture,
windows and doors. In 1956, Byars rented a sod farm to exhibit
his abstract f (showing 500 of 4589 characters). |
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