Open and Shut Case, Fluxcourt Box

Ken Friedman, American, born 1949

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1969

White plastic box with paper label on a clear lid

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.986.80.39

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Fluxus

Research Area

Fluxus

Not on view

Inscriptions

Printed, on label: The hearing of OPEN AND SHUT CASE / has been set at this Fluxcourtbox....Plainiff Ken Friedman

Exhibition History

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.

Provenance

Friedman Family; given to present collection, 1986.

Catalogue Raisonne

J. Hendricks, Fluxus Codex, New York, 1988, p. 257-258, no. 140.

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