Flux Year Box 2

Robert Watts, American, 1923 - 1988
Yoshimasa Wada, Japanese, 1943 - 2021
Wolf Vostell, German, 1932 - 1998
Stanley Vanderbeek, American, 1927 - 1984
Mieko (Chieko) Shiomi, Japanese, born 1938
Bob Sheff, American, 20th century
Paul Jeffrey Sharits, American, 1943 - 1993
James Riddle, American, born 1933
Yoko Ono, American (born Japan), born 1933
Claes Thure Oldenburg, American, 1929 - 2022
Frederic Lieberman, Unknown, 20th century
John Lennon, English, 1940 - 1980
Hi Red Center, Japanese, founded 1963
Ken Friedman, American, born 1949
Albert M. Fine, American, 1932 - 1987
Roland Topor, French, 1938 - 1997
Vera Mertz Spoerri
Robert Filliou, French, 1926 - 1987
Willem de Ridder, Dutch, born 1942
John Cavanaugh, Unknown, 20th century
Ben Vautier, French (born Italy), born 1935
George Brecht, American, 1926 - 2008
Eric Andersen, Danish, born 1943
George Maciunas, American, 1931 - 1978

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Five-compartment wooden box containing works by various artists: "FLUX YEAR BOX 2" screen-printed in black on lid

Overall: 8 × 8 × 3 3/8 in. (20.3 × 20.3 × 8.6 cm)

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

GM.987.44.2

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Fluxus

Research Area

Fluxus

Not on view

Course History

FILM 47, Cut & Paste Cinema, Jodie Mack, Winter 2012

PHIL 23, The Philosophy of Art, John Kulvicki, Winter 2014

PHIL 23, Art and Aesthetics, John Kulvicki, Winter 2015

FILM 44.02/SART 17.19, Cut and Paste Cinema, Jodie Mack, Spring 2019

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

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 numbers 6, 56, 59, 80.

A Space for Dialogue 18, Timepieces: Perceptions of Natural and Manmade Time, Lisa Volpe, Class of 2004, Curatorial Intern, Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 30-April 25, 2004.

A Space for Dialogue 37, Lines of Text, Jonathan Beilin, Class of 2007, Mellon Special Project Intern, Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 20-May 6, 2007.

Disappearing Music for Face, a flipbook by Mieko (Chieko) Shiomi was included in: A Space for Dialogue 82, Rejecting the Diminutive: Small-Scale Art, the Viewer, and the Art World, Winnie Yoe, Class of 2014, Homma Family Intern, Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 24-July 13, 2014.

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

Fluxus 25 Years, Williams College Art Museum, 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.

Lisa Volpe, A Space for Dialogue 18, Timepieces: Perceptions of Natural and Manmade Time, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2004, ill. p. 1.

Jacquelynn Baas, Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2011, p. 61, ill., pp. 73-74, ill. p. 73, checklist numbers 6, 56, 59, 80.

Winnie Yoe, A Space for Dialogue 82, Rejecting the Diminutive: Small-Scale Art, the Viewer, and the Art World, Hanover, New Hampshire: Dartmouth College, 2014, checklist no. 6.

Provenance

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

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