1. Maciunas, George,
editor and designer. Fluxus 1. New York: Fluxus Editions,
1964.
Green Library, Special Collections XX(5411348.2)
In Process
The international
Fluxus group is known for two principle contributions to the history
of modern art. As a collective or collaborative artistic movement,
it staged performances, games, and happenings that put into the
question the conventional notion of the art object, emphasizing
audience participation and interaction instead. Fluxus artists
were also key players in developing and distributing multiples
(artists' publications typically run in small editions) and small
games. These objects challenged the criteria of what constituted
"good" or "high" art while at the same time
inviting audiences to take a more active role in the process of
art-making. Fluxus 1 is the group's very first published
anthology and includes work in various media by such artists as
George Brecht, Dick Higgins, Shigeko Kubota, Jackson Mac Low,
George Maciunas, Robert Watts, Emmett Williams, Ben Vautier, and
La Monte Young. Editions are unnumbered and it is estimated that
Fluxus founder George Maciunas assembled more than 100 copies,
with an evolving list of contents, over time.
2.
Maciunas, George, editor. Everson Catalogue Box.
New York: Fluxus Editions, 1971.
Green Library, Special Collections XX(5411365.2) In Process.
This is a rare edition of one of Fluxus' most famous artists: Yoko Ono.
Specially designed by George Maciunas, the box contains assemblage,
inked footprints of John Lennon and Yoko Ono on paper, a glass
key, miniature plastic boxes, printed scores, a painted work on
paper, and a paperback copy of Yoko Ono's artists' book Grapefruit--a
compendium of Ono's instruction works, dated by year and season,
and a seminal work of conceptual art. As the recent traveling
exhibition of Yoko Ono's work at the San Francisco Museum of Art
demonstrated, Ono's longstanding reputation as a Fluxus affiliate,
a performance artist, film and bookmaker, transcends her more
popular reputation as the wife of John Lennon. The Everson show
of the early 70s was critical in solidifying that reputation for
an art world audience.
3. Orozco, Gabriel. Before the Waiting Dog. New York: n.p., 1993.
Five signed color coupler photographs and a VHS videotape in a handmade
solander case. Copy 6 of 10.
Green Library, Special Collections XX(5411380.1) In Process.
The Mexican artist Orozco is widely recognized as among the most important
artists to emerge in the last ten years, and is internationally
lauded for his mixed-media work that includes film, photography,
video, sculpture, and installation. Before the Waiting Dog
constitutes one of the artist's earliest ventures into the domain
of video, coupled with signed photographs that well demonstrated
his singularly poetic photographic sensibility. Before the
Waiting Dog was made for the exhibition Real Time (1993)
at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in London, organized
by the NY-based gallerist and curator Gavin Brown.
4. Picabia, Francis. 391. Numbers 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 19. Paris:
Le Terrain Vague, 1920-1924.
Green Library, Special Collections NX456.5 .D3 A17 F Rare Books
French writer, painter, and leading figure of the Dada movement Francis
Picabia was the mastermind behind this playful and unpredictable
art and literary review. The earliest issues were published in
1917 and continued through the Dada years. A cover illustration
by Picabia, incorporating the machine-like linear forms characteristic
of his work at the time, can be found on the cover of one Stanford's
issues. Other contributors included New York Dada provocateurs
Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp, Hans Arp, and Tristan Tzara.
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