M26393: Valôche
Multiples
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- M26393
- People
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George Brecht, American (New York, NY 1926 - 2008 Cologne, Germany)
Designed by George Maciunas, American (Kaunas, Lithuania 1931 - 1978 Boston, MA)
Published by Fluxus, American
- Title
- Valôche
- Classification
- Multiples
- Work Type
- multiple
- Date
- early 1970s
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/29740
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- 18-compartment, transparent plastic box containing miscellaneous objects
- Technique
- Assemblage
- Dimensions
- box: 33 x 22 x 5.8 cm (13 x 8 11/16 x 2 5/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Barbara Moore, Bound/Unbound, New York, New York, partial gift partial purchase; to Harvard University Art Museums, June 28, 2005.
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- variation of S. 75
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Barbara and Peter Moore Fluxus Collection, Margaret Fisher Fund and gift of Barbara Moore/Bound & Unbound
- Copyright
- © Estate of George Brecht / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Germany.
- Accession Year
- 2005
- Object Number
- M26393
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- An unlabeled prototype, made by George Maciunas, of the edition later produced by him in various wooden boxes (see M26394). Brecht was apparently unhappy with the compartmentalized realization; it is, in the end, perhaps more typical of Maciunas than of Brecht.
Publication History
- Jon Hendricks, Fluxus Codex, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, 1988), p. 214-215
Verification Level
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