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Maciunas, George, 1931-1978

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1931 November 8 - 1978 May 9

Nationality

Lithuanian (born), American (based)

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Artists Books: Flux Paper Events. No.3 / George Maciunas., 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-24925-25378
Scope and Contents

This book is altered in different destructive ways (stapled or glued together, or folded, torn, crumpled, etc. including one page with a hand-applied smudge of some unknown substance). The first edition was published in 1974; this is from a second printing in 1981. Stored on shelf with Hundertmark material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Box 95 / Mekas J ; Maciunas G., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-34262-35952
Scope and Contents

The exhibition consisted of an international collection of artists' suitcases and boxes, often holding visual/verbal material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Flux Paper Events / Maciunas, George., 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-39933-41900
Scope and Contents

This book consists of blank pages that have been physically manipulated, e.g., crumpled, torn, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

George Maciunas, Fluxus and the Face of Time Volume II / Truck, Fred ; Maciunas G., 1984

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Identifier: CC-60657-10003526
Scope and Contents The number of copies of this book are unknown but because of the magic marker lines, no two are exactly the same.Steve Heller on internet describes tenghe original Selectric Composer, announced in 1966, required text to be typed twice. On the first pass, the machine would automatically measure the length of the line, providing the operator with a color+number (i.e. green-2) combination to be noted in the right margin. When the operator finished all lines of the document, they would put a clean sheet of specially coated paper into the machine and engage the justification lever. This time, prior to typing each line of text, the operator would turn a color dial to the noted color, and another dial to the noted number. Once the dials were set, the operator would begin typing the text. While typing, the Composer would insert incremental amounts of additional space between words such that the line would always be flush on the right margin. Errors could not be corrected, and when they...
Dates: 1984

Revues D'Artistes: Une selection / Marie Boivent, curator ; Vostell W ; Finlay IH ; Brecht G ; Maciunas G ; Chopin H ; Johnson P ; Mayer HJ ; DeVries H ; Gette PA ; Copley W ; Padin C ; Art & Language ; Marroquin R ; General Idea ; Ehrenberg F ; Mayor D ; Banana A ; Gaglione B ; Schraenen G ; Roth D ; Nannucci M ; Blaine J ; Petasz P ; Carrion U ; Flores A ; VanBarneveld A ; Feldmann HP ; Ben ; Baroni V ; Pittore-Eurifico C ; Penck A., 2008

 Item
Identifier: CC-51067-72148
Scope and Contents

This catalogue provides descriptions and images of international artists' magazines from 1960 to 2008 that were exhibited in Cabinet du Livre d'Artiste in Rennes, Galerie des Urbanistes in Fougeres and Lendroit Galerie in Rennes. It lists a number of French magazines that are not known to the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008