Homage to La Monte Young, Homage to Dick Higgins, Homage to Richard Maxfield, Homage to Walter de Maria, Homage to Jackson Mac Low, and Homage to Philip Corner

Homage to La Monte Young, Homage to Dick Higgins, Homage to Richard Maxfield, Homage to Walter de Maria, Homage to Jackson Mac Low, and Homage to Philip Corner

George Maciunas
American, born Lithuania. 1931–1978
1962
A narrow diazotype sheet printed and hand‑inscribed by George Maciunas that lists terse, often absurd performance instructions—‘homages’ to fellow avant‑garde composers—meant as do‑it‑yourself event scores for Fluxus actions.
The sheet reads like a utilitarian announcement: pale yellow photocopy paper, machine‑set blocks of type interrupted by a small hand‑written note and a grid for bodily sounds, producing a mix of bureaucratic plainness and playful, performative invitation.
As an early Fluxus artifact, it helped make instruction and action—a set of simple, reproducible directions—into an artistic medium, collapsing music, visual art, and everyday behavior and arguing that art could be temporary, collective, and performable by anyone.
Medium
Diazotype with ink inscription
Dimensions
sheet: 19 3/16 x 5 7/8" (48.7 x 15 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection Gift
Accession
2356.2008
Palette
Exhibitions
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