Living Flux Sculpture

Ben Vautier, French (born Italy), born 1935

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1966

Clear plastic box with label on lid containing a dead fly

Overall: 3 5/8 × 4 3/4 × 3/8 in. (9.2 × 12.1 × 1 cm)

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

GM.986.80.234

Geography

Place Made: France, Europe

Period

20th century

Object Name

Fluxus

Research Area

Fluxus

Not on view

Inscriptions

Inscribed, on label: LIVING / FLUXSCULPTURE / BY BEN VAUTIER [below a photograph of a caged monkey]

Course History

ANTH 12.4, Your Inner Chimpanzee, Kes Schroer, Spring 2014

ANTH 12.4, Your Inner Chimpanzee, Kes Schroer, Spring 2014

ANTH 12.4, Your Inner Chimpanzee, Kes Schroer, Winter 2015

ANTH 12.4, Your Inner Chimpanzee, Kes Schroer, Winter 2015

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 37.

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, p. 99, checklist no. 37.

Provenance

Friedman Family; given to present collection, 1986.

Catalogue Raisonne

J. Hendricks, Fluxus Codex, New York, 1988, p. 512, no. 439.I.

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