Killed Book
Milan Knizak, Czech, born 1940
1972
Paperback book pierced with what look like bullet holes
Overall: 8 × 5 1/2 in. (20.3 × 14 cm)
Base: 13/16 in. (2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the Friedman Family
GM.986.80.149
Geography
Place Made: Czechoslovakia, 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 31.
Fluxus 25 Years, Williams College Art Museum, Williamstown, Massachusetts, November 7, 1987-January 3, 1988.
Publication History
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.115.
Jacquelynn Baas, Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2011, p. 97, checklist no. 31.
Provenance
Friedman Family; given to present collection, 1986.
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