Excreta Fluxorum

George Maciunas, American, 1931 - 1978

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1973

Eighteen-compartment clear plastic box with labels containing feces from different animals and a white marble

Fluxus Edition, New York

Overall: 7/8 × 4 3/4 × 3 5/8 in. (2.3 × 12.1 × 9.2 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of John Cage

GM.978.204.1

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Fluxus

Research Area

Fluxus

Not on view

Inscriptions

Inscribed below intestinal design on paper label adhered to lid: EX. / CRETA / FLUXORUM / BY / GM'73

Course History

PHIL 23, The Philosophy of Art, John Kulvicki, Winter 2014

PHIL 23, Art and Aesthetics, John Kulvicki, Winter 2015

WRIT 5, On Poor Taste, William Boyer, Winter 2015

ENGL 7.47, Tales of the Avant-Garde, Andrew McCann, Winter 2019

ARTH 63.13, Bad Art!, Katie Hornstein, Winter 2020

ARTH 63.13, Bad Art!, Katie Hornstein, Winter 2020

ENGL 7.47, Tales of the Avant Garde, Andrew McCann, Winter 2020

PSYC 7.03, Science and Pseudoscience, John Pfister, Winter 2021

PSYC 7.03, Science and Pseudoscience, John Pfister, Winter 2022

PSYC 7.03, Science and Pseudoscience, John Pfister, Winter 2022

ENGL 7.47, Tales of the Avant-Garde, Andrew McCann, Winter 2022

Psychological & Brain Sciences 7.03, Science and Pseudoscience, John Pfister, Winter 2023

Studio Art 16.01, Sculpture I, Matt Siegle, Winter 2023

Studio Art 16.02, Sculpture I, Matt Siegle, Winter 2023

Art History 83.06, Art and Life, Katie Hornstein, Spring 2023

Art History 63.13, Bad Art!, Katie Hornstein, Summer 2023

Psychological & Brain Sciences 7.03 – Why People Believe in Weird Things: Science, Pseudoscience, and Thinking Critically about Human Behavior, John Pfister, Winter 2024

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 111.

Acquisitions 1974-1978, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College Museum and Galleries, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 8, 1978-January 21, 1979.

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, Iowa, 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.

Sculpture and Sculptor's Drawings, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, SArt 16,21, and 73, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 20-October 7, 1996.

Second Stage of Modernism: Art from 1945 to the present, William B. Jaffe, Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall, Churchill P. Lathrop, Friends and Owen Robertson Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 6-August 16, 1987.

Publication History

Lee Michaelides, "The Stuff of Art", Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, Hanover: Dartmouth Printing Co., October 1992, Vol 85, No. 2, p. 28.

Dick Higgins, Fluxus 25 Years, Williamstown, Massachusetts: President and Trustees of Williams College, 1987.

Acquisitions 1974-1978, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1979, p. 85.

Jacquelynn Baas, Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2011, p. 130, ill., p. 127, checklist no. 111.

Catalogue Raisonne

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

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