Excreta Fluxorum

George Maciunas, American, 1931 - 1978

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1973

Seven-compartment clear plastic box with labels containing feces from different animals

Overall: 3 5/8 × 4 3/4 × 1 in. (9.2 × 12.1 × 2.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the Friedman Family

GM.986.80.158

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Fluxus

Research Area

Fluxus

Not on view

Inscriptions

Printed, on label, below an illustration of intestines: EX. / CRETA / FLUXORUM / BY GM'73; prined, on label inside lid, upper left: FECES LARVAE TINEA / PELLIONELLAE / (LEPIDOPTERA); upper right: FECES CRICETI / AURATI / (RODENTIA); center left: FECES FELLIS CATAE / (FELIDAE); center middle: FECES EQVI CABALLI / (EQUIDAE); center right: FECES OVIS / (BOVIDAE); lower left: FECES PASSERIFORMIS / NAPOLEONAE / (PLOCEIDAE); lower right: FECES TESTUDINIS / GRAECAE / (CHELONIA)

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 110.

Publication History

Jacquelynn Baas, Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2011, p. 127, checklist no. 110.

Provenance

Friedman Family; given to present collection, 1986.

Catalogue Raisonne

J. Hendricks, Fluxus Codex, New York, 1988, p. 337-338, no. 272.

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