George Maciunas--artist, gallerist, and entrepeneur--is usually credited because the inventor of Fluxus. as well as modifying and designing the 1st anthology entitled Fluxus in 1960, he additionally provided the paper and funds for printing. via 1961 Maciunas had moved from manhattan to Germany to flee his collectors. This ebook facilities round 3 dozen diagrams of background designed by way of Maciunas among 1953 and 1973 as a visualization of chronological causality. Maciunas tried in quite a few how you can draw an image of heritage utilizing dates, evidence, strains, and vectors--the outcome, as a number of black and white illustrations all through this quantity testify, is medical and while artistically interesting.
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