False Food Prototype for Rubber Food Fluxkit

Claes Thure Oldenburg, American, 1929 - 2022

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1966

Mixed medium

Overall: 5 1/8 × 7 1/8 × 2 in. (13 × 18.1 × 5.1 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Billie Maciunas

© Claes Oldenburg

GM.979.181.4

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Fluxus

Research Area

Fluxus

Not on view

Course History

PHIL 23, Philosophy of Art, John Kulvicki, Winter 2013

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

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

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

ITAL 10.06, Culture of Food in Italian Literature, Matteo Gilebbi, Winter 2020

FILM 3.01, Digital Arts and Culture, John Bell, Winter 2020

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

ITAL 10.06, Culture of Food in Italian Literature, Matteo Gilebbi, Winter 2021

FILM 03, Digital Arts and Culture, John Bell, Winter 2021

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

FILM 3.01, Digital Arts and Culture, John Bell, Winter 2022

Film Studies 3.01, Digital Arts and Culture, John Bell, Winter 2023

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

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 93.

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.

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 Pwen 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.

Jacquelynn Baas, Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2011, p. 119, checklist no. 93.

Provenance

1979 given to the George Maciunas Memorial Collection by Billie Maciunas.

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