George Maciunas (November 8, 1931-May 9, 1978) was a Lithuanian-American artist. He was influential in the Fluxus movement and is generally credited with being a founding member. November 8 is the 312th day of the year (313th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 53 days remaining. ... 1931 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... May 9 is the 129th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (130th in leap years). ... 1978 was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... Fluxus (from to flow) is an art movement noted for the blending of different artistic disciplines, primarily visual art but also music and literature. ...
Maciunas was born in Kaunas, Lithuania, and moved to Germany for political and economic reasons. He died in Boston, USA Kaunas (approximate English transcription [ˈkəʊ.nÉ™s], simplified Lithuanian transcription [kaÅnas]; German: Kauen; Polish: Kowno, often anglicized as Kovno; Russian КаунаÑ, formerly Ковно), is the second largest city in Lithuania. ... Alternative meanings: Boston (disambiguation) The 18th-century Old State House in Boston is surrounded by tall buildings of the 19th and 20th centuries. ...
An oratorio about Maciunas, entitled Machunas, was premiered in August 2005 as part of the Christopher Summer Festival in Vilnius, Lithuania. Machunas was conceived of by Lucio Pozzi, with music by Frank J. Oteri.
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Mr. Fluxus: A Collective Portrait of George Maciunas 1931-1978 by Emmett Williams, Ann Noel, Ay-O (Thames & Hudson, 1998, ISBN 0500974616)
GeorgeMaciunas (November 8, 1931 â" May 9, 1978) was an American artist who was a founding member of the Fluxus, an international community of artists, architects, composers, and designers.
GeorgeMaciunas (, pronounced machunas) was born in Kaunas, Lithuania, to a Lithuanian father and Russian mother.
It was in Germany at a 1962 festival in Wiesbaden that Maciunas, Dick Higgins, Nam June Paik, Wolf Vostell, Emmett Williams, Alison Knowles, and Ben Patterson staged the first Fluxus festival.
Maciunas made some three dozen of these historical diagrams between 1953 and 1978 which not only made clear political, economic, poetic, and aesthetic relationships, but also predetermined the geo-historical framework of Fluxus.
Maciunas believed that the evolution of art could not be understood without an orientation of a particular subject in context of time and space.
Maciunas criticized the rigid, linear-narratives of books, lectures, or other traditional forms of learning for their lack of communication of the layers and connections within history.
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