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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: George Maciunas, Juozas Lebednykas, Napoleon Orda, Vytautas Kazimieras Jonynas, Petron l Gerlikien, K stutis Kasparavi ius, Boris Schatz, List of Lithuanian artists, Juozas Zikaras, Paulius Galaun, ilvinas Kempinas, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, William Zorach, ar nas Sauka, Adolfas Vale ka, Anort Mackelait, Zofia Romer, Vladimiras Beresniovas, Adomas Galdikas, Arvydas Ka dailis, Aldona Jonu kait - altenien, Aidas Bareikis, Arturas Bumsteinas, Vytautas Kolesnikovas, Ray Bartkus, Ruslan Korostenskij, Art ras Barysas, Sofija Veiveryt, Gintaras Karosas, Jonas Virakas, Romualdas Aleli nas, Antanas Janauskas, Augis Kepe inskas, Lazar Krestin, Zita Alinskait -Mickonien, Jonas Burba, Danut Kvietkevi i t, Viktoras Andriu is, Lolita Kreivaitien, Rytis Daukantas, Stasys U inskas, Ona Danut Buivydait . Excerpt: George Maciunas (Lithuanian: , pronounced ma-chew-nas; born 8 November 1931 in Kaunas, Lithuania; died 9 May 1978 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States) was a Lithuanian-born American artist. He was a founding member of Fluxus, an international community of artists, architects, composers, and designers. Other leading members brought together by this movement included Yoko Ono, Joseph Beuys, George Brecht and Nam June Paik. He is most famous for organising and performing early happenings and for assembling a series of highly influential artists' multiples. Maciunas' Fluxus Manifesto, copies of which were thrown into the audience at the Festum Fluxorum Fluxus, Dusseldorf, February 1963.His father, Alexander M Maciunas, was a Lithuanian architect and engineer who had trained in Berlin, and his mother, Leokadija, was a Russian-born dancer from Tiflis affiliated with the Lithuanian National Opera and, later, Aleksandr Kerensky's private secretary, helping him complete his memoirs. After fleeing Lithuania to avoid bei...