Ashraf Osman CAS Seminar Paper 14 th June, 2013 OLFACTORY ART Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK) Institute for Cultural Studies in the Arts (ICS) Postgraduate Programme in Curating (CAS) Table of Contents Abstract .............................................................................................................................................................. 2 Theoretical Background.................................................................................................................................. 3 Historical Overview: Olfactory Art in the 20 th Century ........................................................................... 5 Marcel Duchamp ......................................................................................................................................... 5 Fluxus ............................................................................................................................................................. 6 Arte Povera ................................................................................................................................................... 8 Other Work: 1960s-1980s ........................................................................................................................ 10 Jan Fabre....................................................................................................................................................... 12 The Nineties ................................................................................................................................................. 14 Bibliography ..................................................................................................................................................... 18 The text of this document is available for modification and reuse under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License and the GNU Free Documentation License (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts).