Fluxus Preview Review (Fluxroll)

George Maciunas

Fluxus Preview Review (Fluxroll)

Köln-Mülheim, Germany: Fluxus, 1963

167 x 10 cm., scroll

Edition size unknown

An early Fluxus publication/advertisement that featured an announcement for the Fluxyearboxes, Fluxus actions by Eric Andersen, Robert Filliou, Dick Higgins, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Alison Knowles,

Takehisa Kosugi, Arthur Koepcke, Jackson Mac Low, Jonas Mekas, Nam June Paik, Tomas. Schmit, Daniel Spoerri, Robert Watts, Emmett Williams, George Brecht, Ben Vautier, Yoko Ono and others. 

Designed and published by George Maciunas, the work features three glossy white paper leaves (printed on recto and verso) glued together and rolled. 

“In 10 days | will mail several copies of the new Fluxus prospectus — which includes past press reviews, photos of performances, several short fluxus compositions (including your own — kick in the posterior certificate), plus Fluxus schedule of publications and the make-up of the committee [...] | will bring about 1000 of these prospectuses with me (they are like posters & can be pasted about the town)."

- George Maciunas, in a letter to Tomas Schmit

"Fluxus Preview Review, a preview of the “Re-view” (Anthology) Fluxus, served as a kind of first Fluxus newspaper and propaganda vehicle. It contains a definition of the word FLUXUS, a list of the Editorial committee, advertisements for Fluxus Yearboxes and Fluxus product, scores by a number of Fluxus artists and photographs of performances. George Maciunas, who edited and designed the work, took its format from the November 1961 publication Kalender Rolle, edited by Ebeling and Dietrich in Wuppertal, West Germany [see below]."

- Jon Hendricks, Fluxus Codex