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This is an announcement for a group exhibition that Hubaut has altered by painting the inside back cover and adding symbols to the inside front cover. -- 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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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.

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This work consists of a thick card folder with a photograph of Maciunas on its cover and a pocket inside which holds a poster measuring 17" wide by 35" tall outlining the artistic and cultural influences of the Fluxus movement. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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

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Claude Cahun's surrealistic book "Aveux Non Avenus" listed in this catalogue was purchased by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This box contains original cards of varied dimensions that were first published in 1964.The author is listed as Chieko Shiomi, another name for Mieko Shiomi. The recto-verso cards are printed with one side English and the other side Japanese texts. The label on the cover was designed by George Maciunas. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Describes the collection and the collector, Gil Silverman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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

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The Silverman Fluxus catalogue does not list this print. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Silverman Fluxus catalogue does not list this print. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Silverman Fluxus catalogue does not list this print. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This issue is printed on tan paper. The second page carries an announcement of a weekly Fluxfest in NYC. The third page describes Fluxus objects and their prices for sale from the Flux Shop. The fourth page depicts a collage arrangement of snippets of articles cut from scientific periodicals that is analogous to a pataphysical presentation. This reprint of original was published in 1972 by Flash Editions, Milan. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.