Open and Shut Case, Fluxcourt Box
Ken Friedman, American, born 1949
1969
White plastic box with paper label on a clear lid
Overall: 3 5/8 × 4 3/4 × 3/8 in. (9.2 × 12.1 × 1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the Friedman Family
GM.986.80.39
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Fluxus
Research Area
Fluxus
Not on view
Inscriptions
Printed, on label: The hearing of OPEN AND SHUT CASE / has been set at this Fluxcourtbox....Plainiff Ken Friedman
Exhibition History
Fluxus 25 Years, Williams College Art Museum, Williamstown, Massachusetts, November 7, 1987-January 3, 1988.
Publication History
Dick Higgins, Fluxus 25 Years, Williamstown, Massachusetts: President and Trustees of Williams College, 1987.
Provenance
Friedman Family; given to present collection, 1986.
Catalogue Raisonne
J. Hendricks, Fluxus Codex, New York, 1988, p. 257-258, no. 140.
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