Games and Puzzles, Fluxus CL (Name Kit)
George Brecht, American, 1926 - 2008
1965
Plastic box containing die, scrabble letter, clear blue plastic cube, etc., and blue paper printed: "name kit / Spell your name"
Overall: 3 5/8 × 4 3/4 × 7/8 in. (9.2 × 12.1 × 2.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the Friedman Family
GM.986.80.24
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Fluxus
Research Area
Fluxus
Not on view
Inscriptions
Imprinted in various fonts and point sizes on paper label adhered to top of box: Games & Puzzles by George Brecht Fluxus CL
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 112.
Publication History
Jacquelynn Baas, Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2011, pp. 79-82, ill. p. 80, p. 127, checklist no. 112.
Provenance
Friedman Family; given to present collection, 1986.
Catalogue Raisonne
J. Hendricks, Fluxus Codex, New York, 1988, p. 201, no. 58-59.
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