George Maciunas
Personal information
- Known for
- Directing
- Known credits
- 17
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- November 8, 1931
- Died
- May 9, 1978
- Place of birth
- Kaunas, Lithuania
- Also known as
- Jurgis Mačiūnas
Biography
George Maciunas (Lithuanian: Jurgis Mačiūnas; November 8, 1931 – May 9, 1978) was a Lithuanian American artist. He was a founding member and the central coordinator of Fluxus, an international community of artists, architects, composers, and designers. Other leading members brought together by this movement included Ay-O, Joseph Beuys, Jonas Mekas, George Brecht, Dick Higgins, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik and Wolf Vostell.
He is most famous for organising and performing early happenings and for assembling a series of highly influential artists' multiples.
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