Burglary Fluxkit
George Maciunas, American, 1931 - 1978
1971
Seven-compartment clear plastic box with black and white printed label featuring a drawing of several hardware tools and the words: "BURGLARY FLUXKIT BY GEORGE MACIUNAS"; contains seven keys, including a roller-skate key
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.986.80.164
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Fluxus
Research Area
Fluxus
Not on view
Course History
ENGL 7.47, Tales of the Avant-Garde, Andrew McCann, Winter 2019
FILM 3.01, Digital Arts and Culture, John Bell, Winter 2020
ENGL 7.47, Tales of the Avant Garde, Andrew McCann, Winter 2020
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
Film Studies 3.01, Digital Arts and Culture, John Bell, 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 22.
Fluxus 25 Years, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, November 7, 1987-January 3, 1988.
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. 94, checklist no. 22.
Provenance
Friedman Family; given to present collection, 1986.
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