An Anthology [flyer], 1963
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 multiple; this copy is one of a handful that he retained for his personal archive -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates
- Creation: 1963
Creator
- Young, La Monte, 1935- (Editor, Person)
- Maciunas, George, 1931-1978 (Designer, Person)
- Brecht, George, 1926-2008 (Person)
- Bremer, Claus, 1924-1996 (Person)
- Brown, Earle, 1926-2002 (Person)
- Byrd, Joseph, 1937- (Person)
- Cage, John, 1912-1992 (Person)
- Degener, David (Person)
- de Maria, Walter, 1935-2013 (Person)
- Ding Dong (Person)
- Flynt, Henry, 1940- (Person)
- Forti, Simone, 1935- (Person)
- Helms, Hans G., 1932-2012 (Person)
- Higgins, Dick, 1938-1998 (Person)
- Ichiyanagi, Toshi, 1933-2022 (Person)
- Jennings, Terry, 1940-1981 (Person)
- Johnson, Dennis R., 1953- (Person)
- Johnson, Ray, 1927-1995 (Person)
- Mac Low, Jackson, 1922-2004 (Person)
- Maxfield, Richard, 1927-1969 (Person)
- Morris, Robert, 1931-2018 (artist) (Person)
- Ono, Yōko, 1933- (Person)
- Paik, Nam June, 1932-2006 (Person)
- Riley, Terry, 1935- (Person)
- Roth, Dieter, 1930-1998 (Person)
- Waring, James, 1922-1975 (Person)
- Williams, Emmett, 1925-2007 (Person)
- Wolff, Christian G., 1934- (Person)
Extent
1 item (1 announcement object) : 1 lidless box (cardboard, folded, 4 joined panels, offset both sides) ; 6.5 x 6.5 cm, 13 x 6.5 cm (folded)
Language of Materials
English
Custodial History
The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, gift of Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.
Materials Specific Details
Published: New York : La Monte Young. Signature: La Monte Young (c.- panel) Nationality of artist: American. Copies: Less than 36 copies.
Repository Details
Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository
125 W. Washington St.
Main Library
Iowa City Iowa 52242 United States
319-335-5921