M26429: Bundle of Events
PrintsThe ball of paper is light brown, it has printing on it which is visible through the thick light tan twine which is crossed and looped around it with a knot on one end. The ends of the twine are frayed.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- M26429
- People
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Hi Red Center, Japanese (active 1960s)
Designed by George Maciunas, American (Kaunas, Lithuania 1931 - 1978 Boston, MA)
Published by Fluxus, American
Edited by Shigeko Kubota, Japanese (born 1937)
- Title
- Bundle of Events
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1965
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/31493
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Printed sheet crumpled in a ball and tied with twine.
- Technique
- Photolithograph
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Barbara Moore, Bound/Unbound, New York, New York, partial gift partial purchase; to Harvard University Art Museums, June 28, 2005.
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
- Accession Year
- 2005
- Object Number
- M26429
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- This represents a second, and less common, version of M23685. The crumpled sheet, edited by Shigeko Kubota and designed and produced by George Maciunas, is printed on both sides and documents a series of events by the Japanese Fluxus collective in Tokyo in 1963. The idea to distribute the poster crumpled in a ball may have come from Marcel Duchamp's poster-catalogue for the 1953 exhibition "DADA 1916-1923" at the Sidney Janis Gallery in NYC, which were crumpled into balls and placed in wastebaskets for visitors to retrieve.
Exhibition History
- Multiple Strategies: Beuys, Maciunas, Fluxus, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/24/2007 - 06/10/2007
- 32Q: 1100 60’s Experiment, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/07/2015 - 04/06/2016
Verification Level
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