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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M26446.24
People
Mieko (Chieko) Shiomi, Japanese (Okayama, Japan born 1938)
George Maciunas, American (Kaunas, Lithuania 1931 - 1978 Boston, MA)
Title
Water Music
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Fluxkit
Classification
Multiples
Work Type
multiple
Date
1964
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/7470

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Glass, plastic, rubber, paper
Dimensions
object: 8.5 x 3.6 x 2.5 cm (3 3/8 x 1 7/16 x 1 in.)

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
M26446.24
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Jacob Proctor, Ken Friedman, and Hannah Higgins, Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life, exh. cat., ed. Jacquelynn Baas, Hood Museum of Art and University of Chicago Press (Hanover, NH, 2011), p. 50, fig. 5.4; p. 91, cat. 16, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

  • Multiple Strategies: Beuys, Maciunas, Fluxus, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/24/2007 - 06/10/2007
  • Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life, Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, 04/16/2011 - 08/07/2011; Grey Art Gallery, New York, 09/09/2011 - 12/03/2011; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 02/25/2012 - 05/20/2012
  • 32Q: 1100 60’s Experiment, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 04/23/2015; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/20/2022 - 04/24/2023

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