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Takako Saito, Japanese, born 1929

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1965

Paper box covered with drawings filled with smaller paper boxes with drawings

Overall: 5 1/2 × 5 1/2 × 5 1/2 in. (14 × 14 × 14 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Alison Knowles

GM.978.212

Geography

Place Made: Japan, East Asia, Asia

Period

20th century

Object Name

Fluxus

Research Area

Fluxus

Not on view

Course History

ARTH 5.01, Introduction to Contemporary Art, Mary Coffey and Chad Elias, Winter 2022

ARTH 5.01, Introduction to Contemporary Art, Mary Coffey and Chad Elias, Winter 2022

SART 76, Senior Seminar, Enrico Riley, Winter 2022

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 63.

A Space for Dialogue 82, Rejecting the Diminutive: Small-Scale Art, the Viewer, and the Art World, Winnie Yoe, Class of 2014, Homma Family Intern, Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 24-July 13, 2014.

A Tribute to George Maciunas (1931-1978), Beaumont-May Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshrie, November 22, 1978-January 14, 1979.

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.

Publication History

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, pp. 68-70, ill. p. 68, p. 109, checklist no. 63.

Winnie Yoe, A Space for Dialogue 82, Rejecting the Diminutive: Small-Scale Art, the Viewer, and the Art World, Hanover, New Hampshire: Dartmouth College, 2014, ill. p. 3, checklist no. 5.

Provenance

Alison Knowles, to the George Maciunas Memorial Collection, 1978.

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