“Curriculum Plan”
George Maciunas
Proposals for Art Education from a Year Long Study
supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York 1968-1969
©George Maciunas Foundation Inc, All Rights Reserved.
Click to enlarge
Maciunas’ mentor at N.Y.U. was the art historian and Asia specialist Alfred Salmony. He might have aroused Maciunas’ interest in non-European art in general and in the exotic motive of the long tongue and its apotropaic character in particular. See Alfred Salmony, Antler and Tongue: An Essay on Ancient Chinese Symbolism and its Implications (Ascona 1954), pp.30-48. Maciunas made the extended tongue which can be seen on the Aztec calender or sun stone, into a meaningful emblem of Fluxus.
The Historical Past of Fluxus’ Future By Astrit Schmidt-Burkhardt