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Mac Low, Jackson, 1922-2004

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1922 September 12 - 2004 December 8

Nationality

American

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

A Vocabulary For Sharon Belle Matlin / Mac Low, Jackson., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-06771-6890
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive owns the prints (paper, cloth) of the same title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

An Anthology [flyer], 1963

 Item — Box 292: [Barcode: 31858072460714]
Identifier: CC-50815-71893
Scope and Contents This object is an announcement card for the publication of "An Anthology." According to 6 Decades Books: LaMonte Young devised this extraordinary pop-up multiple as a prepublication announcement for An Anthology of Chance Operations, the book he co-published with Jackson MacLow in 1963. An Anthology of Chance Operations was designed by George Maciunas and includes work by Young and Mac Low, along with George Brecht, John Cage, Terry Riley, Dick Higgins, Yoko Ono, Henry Flynt, Walter De Maria, Nam June Paik, Dieter Rot, Robert Morris, Al Hansen, and others. The publication is a compendium of the era's dada-inflected avant-garde represented by a collection of works in which traditional boundaries between music, writing, art, and theater were discarded in favor of an aesthetics based ideas, actions, and ephemerality. The book is widely regarded as the high point publication of the Fluxus movement and a founding document of contemporary art. Young created a few dozen copies of the...
Dates: 1963

Festival of Fantastics Roskilde / MacLow J ; Ben ; Knowles A ; Noel A ; Williams E ; Andersen E ; Corner P ; Hendricks G ; Koepcke A ; Watts B ; Tardos A., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-11245-11460
Scope and Contents

The page by Ann Noel resembles the "I" painting held by the Sackner Archive. No two I's are typographically repeated in this work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Letters For Iris Numbers For Silence; Thanks II / Mac Low, Jackson., 1964

 Item
Identifier: CC-06788-6907
Scope and Contents

Published in Fluxus 1, 1964 although loose sheet is dated 1961. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964