Artworks · George Brecht

George Brecht

2006 · CD

Museum of Modern Art

Fluxus Favourites

2003 · CD

Museum of Modern Art

Water Yam

2002 · Wood box with offset labels, containing 102 offset cards

overall (closed): 5 3/16 x 7 1/8 x 1 13/16" (13.1 x 18.1 x 4.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Void

1984 · Marble with stamp additions

overall (approx.): 4 3/4 × 7 7/8" (12 × 20 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Games & Puzzles/Ball Puzzle

1983 · Plastic box with offset label, containing offset card and wood ball

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

Museum of Modern Art

Games & Puzzles/Bead Puzzle

1983 · Plastic box with offset label, containing offset card, string, and eleven wood beads

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

Museum of Modern Art

Direction

1983 · Plastic box with offset label, containing offset label

overall (closed): 4 3/4 × 4 × 11/16" (12 × 10.2 × 1.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Games & Puzzles/Inclined Plane Puzzle

1983 · Plastic box with offset label, containing offset card and wood ball

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

Museum of Modern Art

Games & Puzzles/Swim Puzzle

1983 · Plastic box with offset label, containing objects in various media

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

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled (Johannes Theodor Baargeld gewidmet)

1981 · Screenprint

sheet: 13 × 9 1/4" (33 × 23.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Bronze

1981 · Bronze

4 15/16 x 11 11/16 x 5/16" (12.5 x 29.7 x 0.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Event

1981 · Etched glass and leather case

overall (glass): 2 3/8 x 5 7/16 x 3/16" (6 x 13.8 x 0.5 cm); overall (case): 3 1/4 x 6 5/8 x 1/4" (8.3 x 16.9 x 0.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Book of the Tumbler on Fire Appendix: Landmass Translocation: Wedding of Havana/Miami

1980 · Watercolor, colored pencil, ink, and stamped ink on offset lithograph

sheet: 25 x 27" (63.5 x 68.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

What George Is Not (Fluxus Is)

1979 · Cassette

Museum of Modern Art

Eastern Daylight Flux Time

1977 · Engraved metal pocket-watch case, containing objects in various media

overall: 2 7/16 x 1 15/16 x 9/16" (6.2 x 5 x 1.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from Fluxus 1

1976 · Envelope, containing four offset cards and one offset lithograph

book: 7 1/2 × 8 1/4 × 1 15/16" (19.1 × 21 × 5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Universal Machine II

1976

1 9/16 x 11 x 11" (4 x 28 x 28 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Universal Machine II

1976 · Wood box with offset labels and glass, containing objects in various media

box: 11 1/2 × 11 1/8 × 1 5/8" (29.2 × 28.3 × 4.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Universal Machine II

1976 · Wood box with offset label containing objects in various media

overall (closed): 11 1/8 × 11 × 1 9/16" (28.3 × 28 × 4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Fluxus 1

1976 · Book with offset, metal bolts and stamped ink, containing objects in various media, in wood box

overall (closed): 9 7/16 x 8 1/2 x 2 3/4" (24 x 21.6 x 7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Prototype for Valoche

1975 · Wood box with typewritten label, containing objects in various media

overall (closed): 7 1/2 x 4 x 10 3/16" (19 x 10.2 x 25.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Valoche / A Flux Travel Aid

1975 · Paper covered box with offset label, containing objects in various media

7 1/2 x 12 1/8 x 7 5/8" (19.1 x 30.8 x 19.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Portrait of George Maciunas

1975 · Wooden box, containing metronome

overall (closed): 9 3/16 × 9 × 4 7/16" (23.3 × 22.8 × 11.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Valoche / A Flux Travel Aid

1975 · Wood box with offset label, containing objects in various media

8 7/8 x 12 5/8 x 7 11/16" (22.5 x 32 x 19.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Valoche / A Flux Travel Aid

1975 · Wood box with offset label, containing objects in various media

7 1/16 × 10 13/16 × 6 1/8" (18 × 27.5 × 15.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

A History of Fluxus, Part One

1974 · Plastic box with typewritten label, containing painted peanuts

5 1/2 × 7 7/8 × 1 1/8" (14 × 20 × 2.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Cedille Uhr

1973 · Altered wrist watch containing objects in various media, in plastic box

overall: 9 1/16 × 1 1/8 × 3/8" (23 × 2.8 × 1 cm); box: 1 9/16 × 5 1/8 × 7/8" (4 × 13 × 2.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Cedille Uhr

1973 · Altered wrist watch containing objects in various media, in plastic box

overall: 9 5/16 × 1 3/4 × 1/2" (23.7 × 4.5 × 1.2 cm); box: 1 15/16 × 5 5/8 × 15/16" (5 × 14.3 × 2.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Nut Bone

1973 · Artist's book, offset printed

book: 1 5/8 x 2 3/4" (4.2 x 7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

No Smoking

1973 · Offset wallpaper

sheet (each): 16 5/8 x 16 3/4" (42.3 x 42.5 cm); overall dimensions vary upon installation

Museum of Modern Art

Ephemera related to proposal for Operation Vesuvius (Operazione Vesuvio), Henry Gallery, Seattle and Il Centro, Naples, 1972–73

1972 · Two offset lithographs, two typewriting on paper, offset brochure, letterpress card, letterpress poster, gelatin silver print, and photocopy

sheet (.a): 5 × 7 3/8" (12.7 × 18.8 cm); sheet (.b, folded): 7 × 5" (17.8 × 12.7 cm); sheet (.c): 3 7/8 × 8 1/4" (9.8 × 21 cm); sheet (.d): 9 13/16 × 6 3/4" (25 × 17.2 cm); sheet (.e): 10 15/16 × 8 1/2" (27.8 × 21.6 cm); sheet (.f): 10 15/16 × 8 1/2" (27.8 × 21.6 cm); sheet (.g): 10 15/16 × 8 1/2" (27.8 × 21.6 cm); overall (.h, closed): 11 11/16 × 8 1/8 × 1/16" (29.7 × 20.7 × 0.1 cm); sheet (.i): 39 7/16 × 27 3/8" (100.1 × 69.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Water Yam

1972 · Cardboard box with presstype, containing 98 offset cards, Brecht's "Nut Bone," and publisher's card

overall (closed): 8 1/16 x 8 1/16 x 1 3/8" (20.5 x 20.5 x 3.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Proposal for Operation Vesuvius (Operazione Vesuvio), Henry Gallery, Seattle and Il Centro, Naples, 1972–73

1972 · Typewriting on three sheets of paper (one with felt-tip pen, one with felt-tip pen and ink, and one with ink)

sheet (.a): 8 3/16 × 6 15/16" (20.8 × 17.6 cm); sheet (.b): 11 5/8 × 8 1/4" (29.5 × 20.9 cm); sheet (.c): 10 7/16 × 7 1/4" (26.5 × 18.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Water Yam

1972 · Plastic box with offset label, containing offset envelope, 97 cards, and "Nutbone"

overall (closed): 5 7/16 x 9 1/8 x 2 3/16" (13.8 x 23.1 x 5.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Water Yam

1972 · Wood box with offset labels, containing 92 offset cards

overall (box, closed): 2 5/8 x 7 11/16 x 5 7/8" (6.7 x 19.5 x 15 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Chair Event

1972 · Wooden chair with pressure-sensitive tape, metal grater, offset flag, measuring tape, and wooden board game pieces

overall (irreg.): 33 1/16 × 14 3/4 × 15 3/8" (84 × 37.5 × 39 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

San Francisco

1970 · Felt, cotton, metal, glass slide, tape, and vinyl

12 3/16 x 16 1/8 x 1" (30.9 x 41 x 2.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Valoche

1970 · Plastic box with offset label, containing objects in various media

9 1/16 × 13 3/16 × 2 9/16" (23 × 33.5 × 6.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Box catalogue for the exhibition La Cédille qui souritat GEORGE BRECHT – ROBERT FILLIOU [An Exhibition with Works, Documents, Events] at the Städtisches Museum Mönchengladbach, Germany, June 18 – July 27, 1969

1969 · Cardboard box containing sixteen single cards, two folded leaflets, and three booklets

Box: 6 3/8 × 8 1/4 × 13/16" (16.2 × 21 × 2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Sonnensalz: from the Anthology of Misunderstandings

1969 · Box of salt with two labels

5 3/8 x 2 3/4 x 1 11/16" (13.6 x 7 x 4.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

AD for DA

1969 · Wooden and glass box, containing objects in various media

overall: 7 11/16 x 5 1/8 x 1 9/16" (19.5 x 13 x 4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Closed on Mondays

1969 · Plastic box with offset label closed with unidentified material

overall (closed): 3 15/16 x 4 3/4 x 5/8" (10 x 12 x 1.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Chemistry of Music

1968 · 35mm slides

Museum of Modern Art

The Chemistry of Music

1968 · 35mm slides

Museum of Modern Art

The Chemistry of Music (T.T.H. Orig)

1968 · 35mm slides

Museum of Modern Art

The Chemistry of Music

1968 · 35mm slides

Museum of Modern Art

Statement on the Other Side of This Card from Flux Year Box 2

1968 · Double-sided offset card

sheet: 3/4 x 2 1/2" (1.9 x 6.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Games & Puzzles/Bead Puzzle/Swim Puzzle from Flux Year Box 2

1968 · Plastic box with offset label, containing four plastic balls and two offset cards

overall (box): 11/16 x 2 5/8 x 2 15/16" (1.7 x 6.7 x 7.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art