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George Maciunas, editor and designer.
Fluxus 1.
New York: Fluxus Editions, 1964.
Acquired in part through the Kenyon Law Starling and Robert L. Goldman Funds.
The international Fluxus group is known for two principal contributions to the history of modern art. As a collective or collaborative artistic movement, it staged performances, games, and happenings that put into the question the conventional notion of the art object, emphasizing audience participation and interaction instead. Fluxus artists were also key players in developing and distributing multiples (artists' works typically produced in small editions). These objects challenged the criteria of what constituted "good" or "high" art while at the same time inviting audiences to take a more active role in the process of art-making. Fluxus 1 is the group's very first published anthology and includes work in various media by such artists as George Brecht, Dick Higgins, Shigeko Kubota, Jackson Mac Low, George Maciunas, Robert Watts, Emmett Williams, Ben Vautier, and La Monte Young. Editions are unnumbered but it is estimated that Fluxus founder George Maciunas assembled more than one hundred copies, with an evolving list of contents, over time. |
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