Propositions for Art (Propositions Pour l'Art)
Ben Vautier, French (born Italy), born 1935
1966, modified 1970
Metal desk painted black with white enamel lettering and dictionary, "Larouse Elementaire" (1955)
Overall: 58 × 35 9/16 × 22 1/2 in. (147.3 × 90.3 × 57.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Jan and Ingeborg van der Marck
GM.980.290
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
20th century
Object Name
Fluxus
Research Area
Fluxus
Not on view
Exhibition History
"Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life" Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 16-August 7, 2011; Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, New York, September 9-December 3, 2011; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan, February 25-May 20 2012, check list number 10.
A Tribute to George Maciunas (1931-1978), Beaumont-May Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 22, 1978-January 14, 1979.
Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 30-September 21, 2001.
Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 8-December 4, 2006.
Fluxibit, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 4-May 10, 1992.
Fluxus 25 Years, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, November 7, 1987-January 3, 1988.
Fluxus: A Conceptual Country, Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin, December 5, 1992-January 31, 1993; The University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, March 27-May 23, 1993; Institute for Cinema and Culture, February 19-21, 1993; Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, September 23-December 5, 1993.
Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 26,2009-March 15, 2010.
Publication History
Estera Milman, Fluxus: A Conceptual Country, Visible Language, Volume 26, number 1/2, Providence, Rhode Island: Rhode Island School of Design, 1992, ill.p. 8
Dick Higgins, Fluxus 25 Years, Williamstown, Massachusetts: President and Trustees of Williams College, 1987.
Brian P. Kennedy and Emily Shubert Burke, Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2009 p.139, no.111.
Jacquelynn Baas, Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2011, ill. p. 46, p. 89, checklist no. 10.
Provenance
Collection by Jan and Ingeborg van der Marck [Ingeborg Lachmann (1916-1988) and Jan van der Marck (1929-2010)]; given to the George Maciunas Memorial Collection, 1980.
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