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1963

Wooden box containing paper cards printed with event scores

Overall: 9 9/16 × 8 7/8 in. (24.3 × 22.5 cm)

Base: 1 3/4 in. (4.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the Friedman Family

GM.986.80.21

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Fluxus

Research Area

Fluxus

Not on view

Course History

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

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

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

Film Studies 3.01, Digital Arts and Culture, John Bell, Winter 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 3.

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.

Jacquelynn Baas, Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2011, pp. 49-50, ill. p. 34, p. 87, checklist no. 3.

Provenance

Friedman Family; given to present collection, 1986.

Catalogue Raisonne

J. Hendricks, Fluxus Codex, New York, 1988, p. 216-219, no. 355.

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