This broadside-like publication, designed by George Maciunas and written by Henry Flynt (with Maciunas’s input), is the clearest articulation of the political position underlying the two artists’ aesthetic philosophy, which motivated their contributions to Fluxus. The text describes how a gradual elimination of the fine arts—characterized as part of an elitist, classist, wasteful, white-supremacist “snob culture”—must accompany the communist revolution. The arguments and visual appendices marry Flynt’s call for a proletarian, anti-racist cultural revolution with Maciunas’s obsession with design efficiency, which in this case addressed everything from cars and electronic musical instruments to social housing, represented by earnest designs for a prefabricated building system. This set of proposals was directed at a dual audience of communists in both the Soviet Union and the United States. The vision outlined here was not shared by all Fluxus affiliates.
Courtesy of Billie Maciunas.
