Jackson Mac Low
Playwright, Author
1922 – 2004
Who was Jackson Mac Low?
Jackson Mac Low was an American poet, performance artist, composer and playwright, known to most readers of poetry as a practioneer of systematic chance operations and other non-intentional compositional methods in his work, which Mac Low first experienced in the musical work of John Cage, Earle Brown, and Christian Wolff. He was married to the artist Iris Lezak from 1962 to 1978, and to the poet Anne Tardos from 1990 until his death. An early affiliate of Fluxus and stylistic progenitor of the Language poets, Mac Low cultivated ties with an eclectic array of notable figures in the postwar American avant-garde, including Nam June Paik, Kathy Acker, Allen Ginsberg, and Arthur Russell. His work has been published in more than 90 anthologies and periodicals and read publicly, exhibited, performed, and broadcast in North and South America, Europe, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. He read, performed, and lectured in New York and throughout North America, Europe, and New Zealand, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Asnières, Paris, Bouliac, Marseilles, Buffalo, Philadelphia, and New York.
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- Born
- Sep 12, 1922
Chicago - Spouses
- Anne Tardos
( - 2004/12/08) - Iris Lezak
- Anne Tardos
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Associate degree, University of Chicago
Philosophy
(1939 - 1943) - Bachelor of Arts, Brooklyn College
Ancient Greek
(1955 - 1958)
- Associate degree, University of Chicago
- Lived in
- Manhattan
( - 2004/12/08)
- Manhattan
- Died
- Dec 8, 2004
Manhattan
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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