__George Maciunas__

__George Maciunas__

You will find a concise biography of George Maciunas in Owen Smith's
doctoral dissertation, including some discussion of the relationship of
Maciunas to SoHo:

Smith, Owen. George Maciunas and a History of Fluxus (or) the Art Movement
that Never Was. Seattle: University of Washington, 1991. [doctoral
dissertation]

There are good discussions of George and especially of his life in relation
to Fluxus in Eastera Milman's special Fluxus issue of Visible Language
magazine:

Milman, Estera, guest editor. Fluxus: A Conceptual Country. [Visible
Language, vol. 26, nos. 1/2.] Providence: Rhode Island School of Design,
1992. [special magazine issue devoted to Fluxus published in conjunction
with traveling exhibition]

Jon Hendricks is the leading expert on George Maciunas. Hendricks is
curator of the world's largest collection of Maciunas's work, publications,
artifacts, documents, papers, etc., The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus
Collection. Hendricks has published a series of important catalogues and
books that give a good overview of Maciunas's products and the most
comprehensive collection in print of the publications and projects Maciunas
designed for the Fluxus group:

Fluxus, etc.: The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection. Jon Hendricks, ed.
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan: Cranbrook Museum of Art, 1982. [exhibition
catalogue]

Fluxus, etc.: Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection.  Addenda I . Jon
Hendricks, ed. New York: Ink &, 1983. [exhibition catalogue]

Fluxus, etc.: Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection. Addenda TWO.  Jon
Hendricks, ed. Pasadena, CA: California Institute of Technology. Baxter Art
Gallery, 1983. [exhibition catalogue]

Fluxus: Selections from the Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection. Clive
Phillpot and Jon Hendricks, eds. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1988.
[exhibition catalogue]

Hendricks, Jon. Fluxus Codex.  New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 1989.

Teal Triggs wrote about George's typography in:

Triggs, Teal. "Flux type," Eye, vol. 2, no. 7, 1992: 46-55.

You will also find some thoughts on George's lifer and his approach to
architecture and design in my articles:

Friedman, Ken. "George Maciunas: In Memoriam."  Umbrella, vol. 1, no. 3
(May 1978): 69.

Friedman, Ken. "George Maciunas: In Memoriam." High Performance, vol. 4,
no. 1 (Issue 13, Spring 1981): 20. (Reprinted from Umbrella).

Friedman, Ken. "George Maciunas: Expanded Arts Diagram," In Contemporary
Masterworks.  Chicago and London: St. James Press, 1991.




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