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Aspects of Fluxus from the Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Jon Hendricks  and
Gilbert B. Silverman
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Abstract

Fluxus is a radical art movement, started by George Maciunas and others in 1962, which is still having a profound effect on advanced art movements of the 1970s and 1980s. By using excerpts from publications; an early essay by George Brecht; and unpublished letters by George Maciunas to several artists drawn from the collection of Gilbert and Lila Silverman, we are able to trace the development of Fluxus publishing concepts and also sense the political foundation of the movement. The article is prefaced by Gilbert B. Silverman’s introductory remarks on the formation and purposes of his collection.

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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , Autumn 1983 , pp. 6 - 26
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Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 1983

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(1) Excerpt from the first Fluxus newsletter, News-Policy-Letter No. 1 (before June 15, 1962).Google Scholar
(2) Maciunas, George. From a letter to Tomas Schmit, ca. December 1962.Google Scholar
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