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George Maciunas
Maciunas on a 2016 stamp of Lithuania
Born
Jurgis Mačiūnas
(1931-11-08)November 8, 1931
Kaunas, Lithuania
Died
May 9, 1978(1978-05-09) (aged 46)
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Nationality
Lithuanian/American
Education
Architecture and Graphic Design
Known for
Visual Art, Aesthetics, Artist's Multiples, Installation, Music, Sculpture, Performance, Mail Art
Movement
Fluxus
Spouse
Billie Hutching
George Maciunas (English: /məˈtʃuːnəs/; Lithuanian: Jurgis Mačiūnas; November 8, 1931 – May 9, 1978) was a Lithuanian American artist, born in Kaunas. A founding member and the central coordinator of Fluxus, an international community of artists, architects, composers, and designers, he is most famous for organising and performing early happenings and for assembling a series of highly influential artists' multiples.[1]
GeorgeMaciunas (English: /məˈtʃuːnəs/; Lithuanian: Jurgis Mačiūnas; November 8, 1931 – May 9, 1978) was a Lithuanian American artist, born in Kaunas...
journal, Beatitude East, and asked GeorgeMaciunas, a trained graphic designer, for help with the layout. Maciunas supplied the paper, design, and some...
artists centred on GeorgeMaciunas, having been involved with the group from the first performances in Wiesbaden 1962 until Maciunas' death in 1978. One...
Festspiele Neuester Musik in Wiesbaden with GeorgeMaciunas, Wolf Vostell, Nam June Paik and others. 1963: George Brecht's collection of Event-Scores, Water...
George Maciunas, Joseph Beuys, Wolf Vostell, Nam June Paik and others. And in 1963 with the: Festum Fluxorum Fluxus in Düsseldorf with GeorgeMaciunas, Wolf...
Fluxus, a movement that originated on an artists' collective around GeorgeMaciunas. He was the father of Andy Warhol protégé Bibbe Hansen and the grandfather...
her close friend, Schneemann, was "blacklisted" by Fluxus-organizer GeorgeMaciunas for reasons that remain unclear. In 1963 Moorman founded the Annual...
New York after exchanging letters with GeorgeMaciunas about the New York Fluxus scene. In a letter to Maciunas (written just before her departure for...
Stockhausen and John Cage and the conceptual artists Sharon Grace, GeorgeMaciunas, Joseph Beuys, and Wolf Vostell. In 1961, Paik returned to Tokyo to...
was founded in the early 1960s by Lithuanian-American artist GeorgeMaciunas. Maciunas promoted her work, giving Ono her first solo exhibition at his...
and quickly developed an artistic relationship with Fluxus founder GeorgeMaciunas (who designed the book An Anthology of Chance Operations, which was...
loop printing rephotography (off the screen) It has been noted by GeorgeMaciunas that these characteristics are also present in Fluxus films. The Flicker...
has collaborated with artists such as C.C. Hennix, La Monte Young, GeorgeMaciunas, and John Berndt. Henry Flynt was born and raised in North Carolina...
Ginsberg, Yoko Ono, John Lennon, Salvador Dalí, and fellow Lithuanian GeorgeMaciunas. After leaving The Voice over an editorial dispute, for a short time...
never published until An Anthology of Chance Operations. In June 1961 GeorgeMaciunas, who had already begun plans to publish a magazine in the autumn of...
Gibbons Francisco de Orellana François Coli Fritz Lang Gabrielle GeorgeMaciunasGeorge Melly Jack Coggins James Joyce Jan Syrový Jan Žižka Jason Trost...
artists' book edited and produced by the Lithuanian-American artist GeorgeMaciunas, containing works by a series of artists associated with Fluxus, the...
Dead Language Press, New York, 1962) New Universal Solar Calendar. (GeorgeMaciunas, New York, 1969) Dream Weapon/Aspen #9. Edited by Angus & Hetty MacLise...
for a few months before meeting GeorgeMaciunas through a mutual friend, Ay-O. An admirer of Japanese art, Maciunas asked Saito if she could make boxes...
sociological art movement. Fluxus was informally organized in 1962 by GeorgeMaciunas (1931–1978). This movement had representation in Europe, the United...
Schickele's P.D.Q. Bach, The Goons, Joe Raposo, Mr. Bungle, Frank Zappa, GeorgeMaciunas, The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo...
leader GeorgeMaciunas. Performances included Come Impersonating John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Grapefruit Banquet (April 11-17) by GeorgeMaciunas, Yoshimasa...
" In his 1973 diagram showing the development and scope of Fluxus, GeorgeMaciunas included mail art among the activities pursued by the Fluxus artist...
experimental art film called Erection that was edited on 16 mm film by GeorgeMaciunas, founder of the Fluxus art movement and avant-garde contemporary of...