Fluxus (Prospectus for Fluxus Yearboxes, Version A)

Wiesbaden: Fluxus, 1962. This copy purportedly belonging to Editorial Committee member Jackson Mac Low, with his pencil annotation to final page, adding Hadeishi Nobuyuki to the Japanese issue. Faint vertical crease to textured olive wrappers (as though folded for mailing); contents now loose from staples—nonetheless, a better than very good copy of a scarce document; with only single OCLC record located in North America (Princeton).. First Edition. Square octavo booklet (4 pages) published by George Maciunas to be distributed during the debut concert tour of Fluxus artists in Germany—featuring George Brecht, Dick Higgins, Alison Knowles, Nam June Paik, Benjamin Patterson, Emmett Williams, and Wolf Vostell. In addition to reproducing the dictionary definition of "flux" that famously inspired Maciunas towards the collective name—"a flowing or fluid discharge from the bowels..."—the booklet offers proposed tables of contents for seven regionally-themed Fluxus Yearboxes, including some surprise names (such as Theodor Adorno for the German & Scandinavian installment). This being the first state of the brochure, printed to orange sheets. (Silverman < 541.I, ff).