Artworks · George Brecht

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1966 · Sewn fabric with metal grommets

overall (flag, irreg.): 27 3/4 x 28 9/16" (70.5 x 72.5 cm)

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Water Yam

1966 · Carboard box with pen and collage additions, containing 53 offset cards

overall (closed): 6 11/16 x 5 7/8 x 1 13/16" (17 x 15 x 4.6 cm)

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Deck

1966 · Plastic box with offset label, containing sealed deck of offset playing cards

overall (closed): 2 15/16 x 3 11/16 x 7/8" (7.4 x 9.4 x 2.2 cm)

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Games & Puzzles/Name Kit ("Spell your name") from Fluxkit

1965 · Plastic box with two offset labels, containing offset card, ball, rubber object, rubber stamp, stone, and three die

overall (closed): 3 15/16 × 4 11/16 × 7/8" (10 × 11.9 × 2.3 cm); component (die, each): 9/16 x 9/16 x 9/16" (1.5 x 1.5 x 1.5 cm); component (ball): 1/2" (1.3 cm); component (cone): 1 x 11/16" (2.6 x 1.8 cm); component (stone, irreg.): 3/16 x 9/16 x 9/16" (0.5 x 1.5 x 1.4 cm); component (stamp): 1/4 x 1/2 x 1/2" (0.6 x 1.3 x 1.3 cm); component (card): 1 x 1 3/4" (2.5 x 4.5 cm)

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Games & Puzzles/Ball Puzzle/Swim Puzzle/Inclined Plane Puzzle

1965 · Plastic box with offset label, containing metal ball and three offset cards

overall (closed): 3 15/16 × 4 11/16 × 1" (10 × 11.9 × 2.6 cm); component (ball): 7/16" (1.1 cm); component (ball puzzle): 1 1/2 x 3 5/8" (3.8 x 9.2 cm); component (inclined plane): 1 5/8 x 3 9/16" (4.1 x 9 cm); component (swim puzzle): 1 9/16 x 3 9/16" (4 x 9 cm)

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Water Yam from Fluxkit

1965 · Plastic box with offset label, containing 95 offset cards

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

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Subscription to Rain Event

1965 · Ink on printed paper

sheet: 2 3/4 × 6" (7 × 15.2 cm)

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Games & Puzzles/Ball Puzzle/Bead Puzzle

1965 · Wooden box, containing two offset cards, two pieces of ivory, and two marbles

overall (closed): 4 5/16 x 4 3/4 x 3 1/16" (11 x 12.1 x 7.7 cm)

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Games & Puzzles/Black Ball Puzzle/Ball Puzzle/Inclined Plane Puzzle/Swim Puzzle/Name Kit ("Spell your name")

1965 · Wood and glass box, containing objects in various media

overall (closed): 6 15/16 × 11 × 3 1/8" (17.7 × 28 × 7.9 cm)

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Mechanical for Games and Puzzles

1965 · Gelatin silver print

sheet: 7 7/8 × 9 11/16" (20 × 24.6 cm)

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Games & Puzzles/Swim Puzzle

1965 · Plastic box with offset label, containing offset card and shell

overall (closed): 3 15/16 x 4 11/16 x 5/8" (10 x 11.9 x 1.6 cm)

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Games & Puzzles/Inclined Plane Puzzle

1965 · Plastic box with offset label, containing objects in various media

overall (closed): 3 15/16 × 4 3/4 × 1 1/8" (10 × 12 × 2.8 cm)

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Games & Puzzles/Ball Puzzle

1965 · Wood box containing two offsets, piece of wood, and plastic ball

10 7/8 x 3 5/8 x 1 7/16" (27.6 x 9.2 x 3.7 cm)

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Fluxkit

1965 · Vinyl-covered attaché case with screenprint, containing objects in various media

overall (closed): 12 5/8 x 16 15/16 x 4 15/16" (32 x 43 x 12.5 cm)

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Direction

1965 · Artist's book, offset printed

overall: 6 x 8 7/8 x 5/16" (15.2 x 22.5 x 0.8 cm)

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Direction

1965 · Plastic box with offset label, containing offset label

overall (closed): 3 7/8 x 4 5/8 x 11/16" (9.8 x 11.8 x 1.7 cm)

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Games & Puzzles/Bead Puzzle

1965 · Plastic box with offset label, containing offset card, five wood beads, and string

overall (closed): 3 15/16 x 4 5/8 x 1 1/4" (10 x 11.8 x 3.2 cm)

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The Universal Machine

1965 · Box containing offset, glass, and objects in various media

overall (closed): 11 x 11 x 1 1/2" (27.9 x 27.9 x 3.8 cm)

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Cloud Scissors

1964 · Offset envelope containing seven offset cards

overall (envelope): 3 11/16 × 4 3/8" (9.3 × 11.1 cm)

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Mechanical for Location

1964 · Pencil, ink, and pressure-sensitive lettering on paper

sheet: 2 13/16 × 2 13/16" (7.2 × 7.2 cm)

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Mechanical for Name Card for George Brecht

1964 · Ink, pencil, pressure-sensitive lettering, and correction fluid on paper

sheet: 8 1/8 × 8 1/16" (20.7 × 20.5 cm)

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Relocation

1964 · Offset card

sheet: 3 1/4 × 3 7/16" (8.3 × 8.7 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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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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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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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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Mechanical for Direction

1963 · Photostat with transparentized paper and pen

sheet: 5 × 6 15/16" (12.7 × 17.6 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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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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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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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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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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Untitled

1963 · Envelope with typewriting, containing 14 offset cards

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

1963 · Pencil on paper

sheet: 4 15/16 x 3" (12.6 x 7.6 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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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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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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Mechanical for Yam Festival Newspaper

1963 · Cut-and-pasted printed papers and graph paper with ink, ballpoint pen, typewriting, transfer type, and stamped ink on board

sheet (each): 29 1/8 x 6" (73.9 x 15.3 cm)

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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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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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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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George Brecht's Drip Music (1962), performed by George Maciunas during Festum Fluxorum/Fluxus/Musik und Antimusik/Das Instrumentale Theater, Staatliche Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf, February 2, 1963

1963 · Gelatin silver print

sheet: 9 3/4 x 7 3/8" (24.8 x 18.8 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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