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Friday, February 7, 2020

George Machunias; Seeing so much interconnectivity makes me think about charts, maps

Seeing so much interconnectivity makes me think about charts, maps, George Maciunas and Tristian Tzara...

"In 1973 Maciunas announced his intention to design a grand art history chart, an exhaustive chronicle of Fluxus....Later that year, he produced the breathtakingly detailed Diagram of Historical Development of Fluxus...
"Maciunas’s chart—which he never considered complete—reveals not only the history of Fluxus but also an ambitious reckoning with modernism and its legacy."