Jeff Berner
Fluxbook
New York City, USA: Fluxus, [circa 1967]
10 x 11.9 x 1 cm.
Edition size unknown
A plastic box containing book pages encased in epoxy, with a George Maciunas designed, offset-printed label. Maciunas additionally designed an alternative label, featuring a child reading from an oversized book (below). The images above are from the MoMA website, the Bonotto Foundation and the Jeffrey Perkins' documentary George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus. Copies of the work can also be found in the Walker Art Centre collection.
"Jeff Berner's Fluxbook consists of a plastic box with a label designed by George Maciunas on the cover. On the bottom of the box is a page of of pocket bible covered with a layer of wax. The Fluxshop in New York sold this beautiful Fluxus object in the late 1960s for 5 dollars each."
- Harry Ruhe
"Although I have only seen pages from a small bible used for the contents of the box, pages from other books exist for the work in the George Maciunas' estate"
- Jon Hendricks
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