Aspen Magazine, No. 8: The Fluxus Issue

Title

Aspen Magazine, No. 8: The Fluxus Issue

Subject

Fluxus (art movement), conceptual art, Intermedia (Art), Artist's periodicals, 1970s avant-garde

Description

Issue No. 8 of Aspen Magazine, known as the Fluxus Issue, was guest edited by Dan Graham and George Maciunas. It embodies the intermedia aesthetic of Fluxus through conceptual instructions, scores, a vinyl record and printed works. The issue's contents blur the boundaries between magazine, art collection and exhibition, reflecting the Fluxus commitment to merging art and life through participatory and ephemeral forms.

Creator

Edited by Dan Graham and George Maciunas

Source

Original issue form the collection of the University of Toronto's Art History Library

Publisher

Roaring Fork Pres (New York, N.Y.)

Date

Fall-Winter 1970-1971

Contributor

George Maciunas, David Antin, Terry Atkinson, Michael Baldwin, Phillip Glass, Jackson Mac Low, Richard Sara, Steve Reich, La Monte Yong, Yvonne Rainer, Jo Baer, Dennis Oppenheim, Robert Smithson, Edward, Ruscha

Relation

Part of: Aspen Magazine (1965-1971); Related to Fluxus works and works by George Maciunas.

Format

Multiple media in box format: printed cards, posters, flexi-disc, and other ephemera.

Language

English

Type

Text; Image; Sound; Physical Object

Coverage

Temporal: 1965-1971
Spatial: New York, N.Y. Aspen, CO.

Collection Items

Section 1: Magazine Cover/Folder
Section 2: In Place of a Lecture: Three Musics for Two Voices
Section 3: Hot/Cold Book<br /><br />
Alternate title: Hot Warm Cool Cold
Section 4:  1+1 for One Player and Amplified Table-Top
Section 6: Lead Shot / Pendulum Music<br /><br />
Side A: Lead Shot<br /><br />
Side B: Pendulum Music
Section 7: Notes on Continuous Periodic Composite Sound Waveform Environment Realizations of Map of 49&#039;s Dream The Two Systems of Eleven Sets of Galactic Intervals Ornamental Lightyears Tracery
Section 8: Three Distributions
Section 9: Art &amp; Vision: March Bands
Section 10:  Introduction to the Yong Turtle Asymmetries
Section 11: Cancelled Crop
Section 12: Strata A Geographic Fiction
Section 14: Special Order Form
Section 5: Young Turtle Asymmetries<br /><br />
Side A: Young Turtle Asymmetries<br /><br />
Side B: Drift Study 31 I 69 Ca. 12:17:33-22:17:33 PM
Section13: Photo From ThirtyFour Parkinglots

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