| Title | Letters from George Maciunas to Dick Higgins |
| Maker | George Maciunas (Lithuanian American, 1931–78) |
| Date | 18 January 1962 and February 1963 |
| Medium | photocopy of original correspondence |
| Type | correspondence |
| Location | Getty Research Institute, Jean Brown Papers, 890164, box 31, folder 5 |
These letters show George Maciunas’s frantic attempts to orchestrate and control Fluxus events from afar during his time working as a graphic designer at a U.S. military base in Wiesbaden, West Germany. He discusses sending and receiving scores by mail, exploiting his access to inexpensive Army Post Office rates, and Dick Higgins’s efforts to organize a Fluxus festival in Stockholm in March 1963, which, against Maciunas’s wishes, ultimately did take place.
Courtesy of Billie Maciunas.
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Maciunas, George. Letters from George Maciunas to Dick
Higgins, 18 January 1962 and February 1963. Getty
Research Institute, Jean Brown Papers, 890164, box 31,
folder 5. In
The Scores Project: Experimental Notation in Music,
Art, Poetry, and Dance, 1950–1975, ed. Michael Gallope, Natilee Harren, and John
Hicks. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2025.
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