Artworks · George Brecht

Cloud Scissors

1964 · Plastic box, containing three offset envelopes and 21 offset cards

overall (closed): 3 15/16 × 4 3/4 × 5/8" (10 × 12 × 1.6 cm)

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Ham Box

1964 · Plastic box, containing painted plaster

overall (closed): 1 3/8 × 1 1/8 × 13/16" (3.5 × 2.9 × 2.1 cm)

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Solo for Violin, Viola, Cello, or Contrabass (1962), performed during Fully Guaranteed 12 Fluxus Concerts, Concert no. 5, Fluxhall, 359 Canal St., New York, April 25, 1964

1964 · Gelatin silver print

sheet: 14 × 10 7/8" (35.5 × 27.7 cm)

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Entrance and Exit Music

1964 · Plastic box containing open reel audio tape and offset card

overall (sound recording): 3/8 x 2 15/16" (1 x 7.5 cm); overall (box): 9/16 x 4 3/4 x 3 3/4" (12 x 19.5 x 1.5 cm)

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Iced Dice

1964 · Set of eight offset cards

sheet (each): 7 1/16 x 7 1/16" (18 x 18 cm)

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Fluxus 1

1964 · Book with offset, metal bolts and stamped ink, containing objects in various media, in wood box with screenprint

overall (closed): 8 15/16 × 9 5/8 × 1 15/16" (22.7 × 24.5 × 5 cm); book (irreg.): 7 1/2 × 8 7/16 × 2 3/16" (19.1 × 21.4 × 5.5 cm)

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George Brecht's Solo for Violin, Viola, Cello, or Contrabass (1962), performed during Fully Guaranteed 12 Fluxus Concerts, Concert no. 5, Fluxhall, 359 Canal St., New York, April 25, 1964

1964 · Gelatin silver print

image: 7 1/2 × 7 1/2" (19 × 19 cm); sheet: 9 13/16 × 7 7/8" (25 × 20 cm)

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Untitled (plate 1) from The International Anthology of Contemporary Engraving: The International Avant-Garde, Volume 5: America Discovered (Anthologia internazionale dell'incisione contemporanea: L'Avanguardia internazionale: Volume 5: Scoperta dell'America)

1964 · Etching from an album of 16 etchings (one with aquatint, one with drypoint, one with pencil additions), three photogravures (two with etching), and one relief halftone

plate: 5 1/2 x 4 3/4" (14 x 12.1cm); page: 11 3/4 x 9 7/16" (29.8 x 24 cm)

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Five Places from Fluxus 1

1963 · Stamped envelope, containing five offset cards

book: 7 9/16 × 8 7/16 × 2 3/8" (19.2 × 21.5 × 6 cm)

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Five Places from Fluxus 1

1963 · Stamped envelope, containing five offset cards

book: 7 1/2 × 8 3/8 × 1 13/16" (19.1 × 21.2 × 4.6 cm)

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Five Places from Fluxus 1

1963 · Stamped ink on envelope, containing five offset cards

book: 7 1/2 × 8 7/16 × 1 15/16" (19.1 × 21.4 × 5 cm)

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Five Places from Fluxus 1

1963 · Stamped ink on envelope, containing five offset cards

book: 7 1/2 × 8 1/4 × 1 15/16" (19.1 × 21 × 5 cm)

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Event Score

1963 · Offset card

sheet: 3 1/8 × 4 5/8" (8 × 11.8 cm)

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Bold Eye

1963 · Mailed envelope with ink and stamped ink additions, containing printed paper and transparentized paper with presstype and ink additions

overall (envelope, irreg.): 3 5/8 × 5 7/8" (9.2 × 15 cm)

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Yaaam

1963 · Mailed envelope with ink and ballpoint pen additions, containing pencil on letterpress, ink on printed paper, newsprint, typewriting with ink additions, and objects in various media

overall (envelope, irreg.): 3 5/8 × 6 1/8" (9.2 × 15.5 cm)

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Five Places from Fluxus 1

1963 · Envelope with stamped ink additions, containing five offset cards

book: 7 1/2 × 8 1/4 × 2 3/16" (19.1 × 21 × 5.5 cm)

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Five Places from Fluxus 1

1963 · Stamped envelope, containing five offset cards

book: 7 9/16 x 8 1/4 x 1 3/16" (19.2 x 21 x 3 cm)

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Water Yam from Fluxkit

1963 · Plastic box with offset label, containing 99 offset cards and Cloud Scissors envelope with seven cards

overall (closed): 5 1/2 x 7 1/16 x 1 3/16" (14 x 18 x 3 cm)

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Five Places and Direction from Fluxus 1

1963 · Envelope containing six offset cards from a book with offset, metal bolts and stamped ink, containing objects in various media

book: 7 1/2 × 8 7/16 × 2 3/16" (19.1 × 21.4 × 5.5 cm)

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Water Yam from Fluxkit

1963 · Plastic box with offset label, containing 85 offset cards

overall (box): 5 1/2 x 7 1/16 x 1 3/16" (14 x 18 x 3 cm)

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Blink

1963 · Screenprint and synthetic polymer paint on canvas

18 1/4 × 18 1/4" (46.3 × 46.3 cm)

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Blink

1963 · Screenprint and synthetic polymer paint on canvas

18 1/4 × 18 1/4" (46.3 × 46.3 cm)

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Blink

1963 · Screenprint and synthetic polymer paint on canvas

18 1/4 × 18 1/4" (46.3 × 46.3 cm)

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Blink

1963 · Screenprint and synthetic polymer paint on canvas

18 1/4 × 18 1/4" (46.3 × 46.3 cm)

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Drip Music (1962), performed during Fluxus Festival, Hypokriterion Theater, Amsterdam, June 23, 1963

1963 · Gelatin silver print

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Mechanical for Direction

1963 · Photostat with transparentized paper and pen

sheet: 5 × 6 15/16" (12.7 × 17.6 cm)

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Attaché Case

1963 · Vinyl-covered attaché case with screenprint

12 5/8 x 16 15/16 x 3 3/4" (32 x 43 x 9.5 cm)

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University for Avant-Garde Hinduism / Yam Festival

1963 · Mailed envelope, containing mailed envelope and cardboard with ballpoint pen and stamped ink

sheet (.a): 9 1/16 × 12 3/4" (23 × 32.4 cm); sheet (.b): 8 3/4 × 11 5/16" (22.2 × 28.8 cm)

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Action Painting

1963 · Screenprint on canvas

overall (approx.): 23 5/8 × 29 1/2 × 1 3/16" (60 × 75 × 3 cm)

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Exercise

1963 · Offset card

sheet: 3 1/8 × 3 9/16" (8 × 9.1 cm)

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Untitled

1963 · Envelope with typewriting, containing 14 offset cards

overall (envelope): 3 × 4 9/16" (7.6 × 11.6 cm)

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Event Scores

1963 · Envelope with typewriting, containing 13 offset cards

overall (envelope): 3 x 4 9/16" (7.6 x 11.6 cm)

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Water Yam

1963 · Plastic box with offset label, containing 46 offset cards

overall (closed): 5 3/8 x 7 1/8 x 7/16" (13.6 x 18.1 x 1.1 cm)

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Direction

1963 · Offset lithograph

sheet (folded): 5 15/16 x 8 11/16" (15.1 x 22 cm)

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Bulletin Board (Laugh)

1963 · Printed papers, stencils, stamped ink, plastic, and objects in various media on board

overall (irreg.): 17 11/16 × 12 5/8 × 2 3/4" (45 × 32 × 7 cm)

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Direction

1963 · Offset lithograph

sheet (each): 5 3/4 × 8 3/16" (14.6 × 20.8 cm)

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Newspaper for Sissor Bros. Warehouse, Rolf Nelson Gallery, Los Angeles, October 7–November 3, 1963

1963 · Offset lithograph

sheet: 18 3/16 x 6 7/8" (46.2 x 17.5 cm)

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Water Yam

1963 · Wood box with offset label, containing 69 offset cards

overall (box): 9 9/16 x 8 7/8 x 1 13/16" (24.3 x 22.6 x 4.6 cm)

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Blink

1963 · Screenprint and synthetic polymer paint on canvas

18 1/4 x 18 1/4" (46.3 x 46.3 cm)

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Eight Piano Transcriptions for David Tudor

1963 · Series of nine sheets of ink on paper

sheet (each): 10 7/8 x 8 7/16" (27.7 x 21.4 cm)

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Dance Music for Ray Johnson

1963 · Ink on paper

sheet: 1 9/16 x 2 13/16" (3.9 x 7.1 cm)

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Water

1963 · Pencil on paper

sheet: 4 15/16 x 3" (12.6 x 7.6 cm)

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An Anthology of chance operations, concept art, anti art, indeterminacy, plans of action, diagrams, music, dance constructions, improvization, meaningless work, natural disasters, compositions, mathematics, essays, poetry

1963 · Artist's book, letterpress and offset printed

overall: 7 3/4 x 8 15/16 x 3/8" (19.7 x 22.7 x 1 cm)

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Five Places, Thursday, and Smoke

1963 · Ink on paper, mounted on graph paper

sheet (irreg.): 11 x 8 5/16" (28 x 21.1 cm)

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A Play

1963 · Ink on paper mounted on graph paper

sheet (irreg.): 10 5/8 x 8 1/4" (27 x 20.9 cm)

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No Smoking

1963 · Metal sign on wood post

overall: 23 5/8 x 14 3/16 x 11/16" (60 x 36 x 1.8 cm)

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Working material for the Tulane Drama Review Fluxus foldout

1963 · Cropped gelatin silver print

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Five Places

1963 · Envelope with rubberstamp additions, containing five offset cards

card (each): 1 x 1 9/16" (2.6 x 4 cm); overall (envelope): 2 3/16 x 3 9/16" (5.6 x 9 cm)

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