Maciunas, George, 1931-1978
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1931 November 8 - 1978 May 9
Nationality
Lithuanian (born), American (based)
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
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
Fluxus, 1964
Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: CC-05869-5979
MACIUNAS ED 912 Posters (No Series, No. 2): U.S surpasses all Nazi genocide records!, 1967
Item — Folder 26: [Barcode: 31858072459856]
Identifier: CC-14191-14497
?quien es Ben?., 2008
Item
Identifier: CC-49619-70670
Same Card Flux Deck, 1983
Item — Box 200: [Barcode: 31858072459708]
Identifier: CC-05866-5976
Scope and Contents
Original Fluxus box and label. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates:
1983
