Fluxus I

LaMonte Young, American, born 1935
Emmett Williams, American, 1925 - 2007
Robert Watts, American, 1923 - 1988
Ben Vautier, French (born Italy), born 1935
Mieko (Chieko) Shiomi, Japanese, born 1938
Tomas Schmit, German, 1943 - 2006
Takako Saito, Japanese, born 1929
Benjamin Patterson, American, 1934 - 2016
Nam June Paik, American (born South Korea), 1932 - 2006
Jackson MacLow, American, 1922 - 2004
Gyorgy Ligeti, Austrian, 1923 - 2006
Shigeko Kubota, Japanese, 1937 - 2015
Takehisa Kosugi, Japanese, 1938 - 2018
Alison Knowles, American, born 1933
Joseph John Jones, American, 1909 - 1963
Dick Higgins, American, 1938 - 1998
Sohei Hashimoto, Japanese, born 1943
Brion Gysin, American, 1916 - 1986
Robert Filliou, French, 1926 - 1987
Congo, Unknown, 20th century
Stanley Brouwn, Dutch, born 1935
George Brecht, American, 1926 - 2008
Ay-O, Japanese, born 1931
George Maciunas, American, 1931 - 1978

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about 1964, later assembling by Jean Brown

Wooden box containing paperbound book of interleaved pages and inserts with works by various artists fastened with three metal nuts-and-bolts

Overall: 8 11/16 × 9 7/16 × 2 3/8 in. (22 × 24 × 6 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the William S. Rubin Fund

GM.987.44.1

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Fluxus

Research Area

Fluxus

Not on view

Inscriptions

George Maciunas, Editor

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 4.

Fluxibit, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 4-May 10, 1992.

Publication History

Lee Michaelides, "The Stuff of Art", Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, Hanover: Dartmouth Printing Co., October 1992, Vol 85, No. 2, p. 28.

Jacquelynn Baas, Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2011, p. 52, p. 87, checklist no. 4.

Provenance

George Maciunas to Larry Miller, New York, New York; sold to present collection, 1987.

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