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By Bernd Evers, Jon Hendricks, Astrit Schmidt-Burkhardt, George Maciunas
George Maciunas--artist, gallerist, and entrepeneur--is usually credited because the inventor of Fluxus. as well as enhancing and designing the 1st anthology entitled Fluxus in 1960, he additionally provided the paper and funds for printing. by way of 1961 Maciunas had moved from big apple to Germany to flee his collectors. This e-book facilities round 3 dozen diagrams of heritage designed through Maciunas among 1953 and 1973 as a visualization of chronological causality. Maciunas tried in a variety of how you can draw an image of background utilizing dates, evidence, strains, and vectors--the consequence, as various black and white illustrations all through this quantity testify, is medical and while artistically attention-grabbing.
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By defining these as columns, he produces a version of the past as the history of regions that can easily be compared with each other. Over a long period of time, these ruled lines run parallel. Yet at the first sign of armed conflict between the countries, they instantly metamorphose into frontlines—as if they were based on a kind of jigsaw puzzle. Maciunas concentrates on the line so as to lend graphic )( form to the territorial play of forces unleashed when military energies clash. The lines’ irregularity is indicative of the territorial shifts resulting from military campaigns.
82 Using the artistic resources of Fluxus as a vehicle, Maciunas firmly dismissed the strident demand of Westerners—and hence, implicitly, of the West—that “Russia should accept western capitalism” (pl. 5/A2). 83 The events and Fluxkits were conceived in such a way that they did indeed undermine the commodity value of conventional artworks—one of the best known side-effects of which was to condemn Fluxus to unrelieved financial embarrassment. What Maciunas was striving for with Fluxus was the gradual elimination of the fine arts.
Maciunas kept the hole-punched, letterformat pages in ring binders, one practical advantage of which was that new pages could be added without upsetting the basic chronological order. Only after collecting countless pieces of information did he proceed to the next stage, which was to interconnect the data so as to open up the larger historiographic context. To do this, he pasted together his data sheets to create much larger datascapes. These were then divided up into geometrical sections and furnished with semantically charged headings as an aid to orientation.