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George Maciunas (English: / məˈtʃuːnəs /; Lithuanian: Jurgis Mačiūnas; November 8, 1931 Kaunas – May 9, 1978 Boston, Massachusetts) was a Lithuanian American artist, art historian, and art organizer who was the founding member and central coordinator of Fluxus, [1] an international community of artists, architects, composers, and designers.
George Maciunas was a founding member of Fluxus, an international community of artists, architects, composers, and designers. He is most famous for organizing and performing happenings and for assembling a series of highly influential artists' multiples.
George Maciunas (English: ; Lithuanian: Jurgis Mačiūnas; November 8, 1931 Kaunas – May 9, 1978 Boston, Massachusetts) was a Lithuanian American artist, art historian, and art organizer who was the founding member and central coordinator of Fluxus, an international community of artists, architects, composers, and designers.
Maciunas planned to include articles on electronic music, anarchism, experimental cinema, nihilism, happenings, lettrism, sound poetry, and even painting, with specific issues of the magazine focusing on the United States, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, and Japan.
Lithuanian-born American artist George Maciunas (1931-1978) is best known as the founder and central coordinator of Fluxus from 1962 until his untimely death in 1978. Fluxus was a global collective of artists, musicians, designers bound by their intermedia sensibility and experimental enlightenment.
May 3, 2019 · A feature documentary as mercurial as its subject: the impresario of the international avant-garde art movement Fluxus (1962-78). Featuring interviews with Yoko Ono, Jonas Mekas, and Nam June Paik...
George Maciunas as Art Historian. In the chart, George Maciunas’s wonderful graphic sensibility met his ambitious approach to art history. Maciunas had studied art history at New York’s Institute of Fine Arts in the late 1950s, where his interest in charting and mapping connections was already evident.
But in his work for Fluxus George Maciunas not only took an “art attitude” toward every aspect of daily living, but, by inversion, was also willing to transform even seeming trivialities into esthetic fodder.
Dec 31, 2016 · George Maciunas is remembered by SoHo pioneers and aficionados of the Fluxus movement, but unknown to many in the general public, even to resdidents who currently live in SoHo lofts.
GEORGE MACIUNAS CURRICULUM VITAE. Born November 8, 1931 in Kaunas, Lithuania. EDUCATION. 1949-52: Cooper Union School of Art. studied art, graphic art, architecture. 1952-54: Carnegie Institute of Technology Pittsburgh, studied architecture and musicology. B. of Architecture. 1955-60: Institute of Fine Arts, NYU.
