Underland Explorations, Remains of Common and Ithyphallic Beings

Jere Lykins, American, 1946-2021

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1977

Three terracotta objects with pinned paper label typed "remains of common and ithyphallic beings" in a stamped wooden box with plastic cover, inscribed on bottom: "1977, Jere Lykins, 19/50" (not a Fluxus edition)

Overall: 4 1/2 × 5 1/4 × 3/4 in. (11.4 × 13.4 × 1.9 cm)

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

KF.986.80.350

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Fluxus

Research Area

Fluxus

Not on view

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 85.

Publication History

Jacquelynn Baas, Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2011, p. 116, checklist no. 85.

Provenance

Friedman Family; given to present collection, 1986.

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