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George Maciunas (Jurgis Mačiūnas) (* 8. November 1931 in Kaunas; † 9. Mai 1978 in Boston) war ein US-amerikanischer Künstler litauischer Abstammung. Er war Mitbegründer, Theoretiker und Propagandist der Fluxusbewegung . Inhaltsverzeichnis. 1 Leben. 1.1 Frühe Jahre. 1.2 Studium. 1.3 Das Magazin Fluxus. 1.4 Almus Galerie und AG-Galerie.
George Maciunas (English: / m ə ˈ tʃ uː n ə s /; Lithuanian: Jurgis Mačiūnas; November 8, 1931 – May 9, 1978) was a Lithuanian American artist, born in Kaunas.
- Architecture and Graphic Design
- Fluxus
- Lithuanian/American
George Maciunas (English: ; Lithuanian: Jurgis Mačiūnas; November 8, 1931 – May 9, 1978) was a Lithuanian American artist, born in Kaunas. A founding member and the central coordinator of Fluxus, an international community of artists, architects, composers, and designers, he is most famous for organising and performing early happenings and ...
Zum Jahresende 1969 erhielt George Maciunas die Einladung, an der Rutgers State University of New Jersey eine Fluxus-Aktion zu veranstalten. Die Universität, an der der Künstler und Kunsttheoretiker Allan Kaprow bis 1961 unterrichtet hatte, galt aufgrund ihres experimentierfreudigen Kunstprogramms als Hochburg des Happenings und der Performance Art.
Learn about the life and work of George Maciunas, the driving force behind the Fluxus movement and a figurehead of the Fluxus artists. Explore his biography, art, influences, and legacy through his paintings, diagrams, and events.
- Lithuanian-American
- November 8, 1931
- Kaunas, Lithuania
- May 9, 1978
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.
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.
