Maciunas' learning machines : from art history to a chronology of fluxus

The art of cross-linked thinking consists in facilitating dealing with complexity and admitting new insights. This approach, prevailing in all realms of knowledge, determines also the artistic praxis of Fluxus initiator George Maciunas. This book shows some hundred diagrams and maps related to history from antiquity to postmodernism; they serve to visualize artistic, political, and economic correlations. If it were up to Maciunas, there wouldn’t be any real concept of the past without percepts. With his maps, diagrams, and tables, a big part of which is published for the first time, he tries to draw a picture of history in a different way. The result seems fascinating both on a scientific and artistic level. It opens insights into eye-opening correlations between dates and facts as well as makes appear completely novel forms of knowledge transfer. Front Matter....Pages 1-6 Foreword by Jon Hendricks....Pages 7-8 Preface....Pages 9-12 Learning in the Age of Enlightenment....Pages 13-18 Atlas of Russian History....Pages 19-30 History Charts....Pages 31-44 Fluxus Charts....Pages 45-64 Learning Machines....Pages 65-84 Back Matter....Pages 85-218 This second edition of diagrammatic work by Fluxus founder George Maciunas is a fascinating insight into one of the 1960s' most colorful cultural movements and includes dozens of maps interpreting Russian history that show the scope of his lateral thinking. Astrit Schmidt-burkhardt. Two Folded Plates In Pocket. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 201-211).