Critical Mass: Happenings, Fluxus, Performance, Intermedia and Rutgers University, 1958-1972
2009Hendricks, Geoffrey
224 pages (color)
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1926 New York City - 2008 Cologne, Germany. Known for: Conceptual artist, assemblage, pop sculpture.
A leading member of Fluxus, a group of Conceptual artists of the early 1960s, George Brecht lived in the USA until 1965, when he moved to Europe, settling in Cologne in 1972. He was born in New York... Read full biography
A leading member of Fluxus, a group of Conceptual artists of the early 1960s, George Brecht lived in the USA until 1965, when he moved to Europe, settling in Cologne in 1972. He was born in New York City with the name of George MacDiarmid but changed his name to Brecht during World War II "because... Read full biography
A leading member of Fluxus, a group of Conceptual artists of the early 1960s, George Brecht lived in the USA until 1965, when he moved to Europe, settling in Cologne in 1972. He was born in New York City with the name of George MacDiarmid but changed his name to Brecht during World War II "because he liked the sound of the name." Brecht described his art expression as a way of "ensuring that the details of everyday life, the random constellations of objects that surround us, stop going... Read full biography
A leading member of Fluxus, a group of Conceptual artists of the early 1960s, George Brecht lived in the USA until 1965, when he moved to Europe, settling in Cologne in 1972. He was born in New York City with the name of George MacDiarmid but changed his name to Brecht during World War II "because he liked the sound of the name." Brecht described his art expression as a way of "ensuring that the details of everyday life, the random constellations of objects that surround us, stop going unnoticed.". His specialties in addition to painting and sculpture were assemblages, arrangements that often featured chairs, and 'event scores', which were written messages "with eccentric instructions" on small white cards that he would mail to friends.... Read full biography
A leading member of Fluxus, a group of Conceptual artists of the early 1960s, George Brecht lived in the USA until 1965, when he moved to Europe, settling in Cologne in 1972. He was born in New York City with the name of George MacDiarmid but changed his name to Brecht during World War II "because he liked the sound of the name." Brecht described his art expression as a way of "ensuring that the details of everyday life, the random constellations of objects that surround us, stop going unnoticed.". His specialties in addition to painting and sculpture were assemblages, arrangements that often featured chairs, and 'event scores', which were written messages "with eccentric instructions" on small white cards that he would mail to friends. After serving in the War, he became a chemistry student at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, and from 1950 to 1965, ea... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (23)
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See This Sound: Promises in Sound and Vision (Lentos Art Museum, LInz, Austria
2009Rainer, Cosima et al312 pages (color)Art Metropole: The Top 100 (National Gallery of Canada)
2006
(Exhibition catalog)Scott, Kitty et al137 pagesThe Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)479 pagesDavenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesWho's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993Bowker R R1,473 pagesBreakthroughs Avant-Garde Artists in Europe & America 1950-1990
1991Wexner Center, Ohio State U310 pages (color)Word As Image American Art 1960-1990
1990
(Exhibition catalog)Bowman, Russell/Dean Sobel172 pages (color)Pop Art A Continuing History
1990Livingstone, Marco271 pages (color)Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition)
1989Naylor, Colin (editor)1,059 pagesDictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987Cummings, Paul653 pagesWho's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986Jaques Cattell Press1,292 pagesMantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986Opitz, Glenn B (editor)1,081 pagesCorrespondence Art: Source Book for the Network of International Postal Art Activity
1984Crane, Michael and Mary Stofflet (Editors)522 pagesBlam, the Explosion of Pop, Minimalism and Performance 1958-1964
1984
(Exhibition catalog)Haskell, Barbara160 pagesDictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present
1984Opitz, Glenn B (editor)656 pagesThe Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art
1981Osborne, Harold656 pages (color)Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art
1977Barr, Alfred H655 pagesAmerican Sculpture A Guide to Information Sources
1977Ekdahl, Janis260 pagesSoHo, New York Downtown Mahhattan/Berliner Festwochen
1976
(Exhibition catalog)Block, Rene431 pagesPoets of the Cities New York and San Francisco 1950-1965
1974
(Exhibition catalog)Dallas Museum of Fine Art174 pagesPop Art Redefined
1969
(Exhibition catalog)Russell, John/Suzi Gablik240 pages (color)The Art of Assemblage
1961
(Exhibition catalog)Seitz, William C176 pages (color)