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George Maciunas ( English: / məˈtʃuːnəs /; Lithuanian: Jurgis Mačiūnas; November 8, 1931 – May 9, 1978) was a Lithuanian American artist, born in Kaunas.
Learn about George Maciunas, the Lithuanian-American artist who founded and led the Fluxus movement, a radical and anti-artistic form of art. Explore his ideas, manifestos, events, and diagrams that influenced contemporary art.
- Lithuanian-American
- November 8, 1931
- Kaunas, Lithuania
- May 9, 1978
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...
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George Maciunas was a Lithuanian-born American artist and the founder of Fluxus, a movement of experimental art and performance. Explore his works, exhibitions, publications, and biography at MoMA.
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.
Learn about George Maciunas, the guiding spirit of Fluxus, a 1960s and ’70s art movement that challenged the boundaries of art and life. Explore his biography, his role in Fluxus, and his collection of Fluxus art at the Hood Museum of Art.
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Dec 31, 2016 · George Maciunas is historically considered the primary founder and organizer of the movement, who described Fluxus as, “a fusion of Spike Jones, gags, games, Vaudeville, Cage and Duchamp.”
