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Aspen Magazine has been put on the internet on Ubu.com/aspen by Andrew Stafford. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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...

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Jon Hendricks, the editor, contributed an essay "Some Notes on Fluxus - Scores and Instructions" in which he writes that "People often see Fluxus performances as limited to a small group of action pieces, and ignore the rich variety of work that Fluxus embraced at different points in time." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Auction catalog. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book includes five pages of calligraphic markings by Zarzella and a long interview of Young by Richard Kostelanetz. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.