MACIUNAS, George

A legendary character to all who knew him, Maciunas, a Lithuanian-born American who seemed forever an immigrant, was at once the founder and sometime generalissimo of Fluxus and the developer/renovator of artists' cooperatives in Soho. His own art consisted of ingenious architectural proposals, small boxes accumulating debris similar in some way (such as excrement), and audacious graphic designs. His artistic masterpiece is the Expanded Arts Diagram (1966), which is a complex graphic history portraying...