 george maciunas (; ; november 8, 1931 â may 9, 1978) was a lithuanian-born 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, 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.moma.org/fluxus ==biography== ===early life=== 210px|left|thumb|maciunas' fluxus manifesto, copies of which were thrown into the audience at the festum fluxorum fluxus, dÃ¼sseldorf, february 1963. his father, alexander m maciunas, was a lithuanian architect and engineer who had trained in berlin, and his mother, leokadija, was a russian-born dancer from tiflis affiliated with the lithuanian national operamr fluxus, e williams and a noel, thames and hudson, 1997, p338 and, later, aleksandr kerensky's private secretary, helping him complete his memoirs.mr fluxus, e williams and a noel, thames and hudson, 1997, p18 after fleeing lithuania to avoid being arrested by the advancing russian army in 1944, and living briefly in bad nauheim, frankfurt, germany, jurgis maÄiÅ«nas and his family emigrated to the usa in 1948, living in a middle class area of long island, new york. after arriving in the usa, george studied art, graphic design, and architecture at cooper union, architecture and musicology at the carnegie institute of technology in pittsburgh and finally art history at new york university's institute of fine arts specializing in the european and siberian art of migrations. his studies lasted eleven years from 1949 to 1960 and were completed in succession. this began a fascination with the history of art for the rest of his life, and whilst there he began his first art-history chart, measuring 6 by 12 foot, a "time/space chart categ
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