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George Brecht (August 27, 1926 – December 5, 2008),

born George Ellis MacDiarmid, was an American
conceptual artist and avant-garde composer as well as a
professional chemist who worked as a consultant for com-
panies including Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, and Mobil
Oil. He was a key member of, and influence on, Fluxus,
the international group of avant-garde artists centred on
George Maciunas, having been involved with the group
from the first performances in Wiesbaden 1962 until
Maciunas’ death in 1978.
One of the originators of 'participatory' art,[2] in which
the artwork can only be experienced by the active involve-
ment of the viewer, he is most famous for his Event Scores
such as Drip Music 1962,[3] (see Video on YouTube) and
is widely seen as an important precursor to conceptual
art.[4][5][6] He described his own art as a way of “ensuring
that the details of everyday life, the random constellations
of objects that surround us, stop going unnoticed.” [7]

1 Biography
1.1 Early life
Brecht was born George Ellis MacDiarmid in New
York, August 27, 1926.[8] His father, also George Ellis
MacDiarmid,[1] was a professional flautist who had toured
with John Philip Sousa’s marching band before settling in
New York to play bass flute for the Metropolitan Opera
Orchestra and the NBC Symphony Orchestra.[7] After his
father’s death from alcoholism when Brecht was 10 years
old,[1] he moved with his mother to Atlantic City, New
Jersey. He enlisted for military service in 1943, and it
was whilst he was stationed near the Black Forest, Ger-
many, 1945, that he changed his surname to 'Brecht' -
'not in reference to Bertolt Brecht, but because he liked
the sound of the name'.[7]
After World War II, he studied chemistry at the
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy & Science, finishing
his degree and marrying his first wife Marceline in 1951.
After working briefly for Charles Pfizer & Co as a quality
Koan, from the Toward Events Exhibition, Reuben Gallery, NY,
1959. (The wallpaper belongs to the gallery, not the artwork.)
control inspector, he took a job as a research chemist for
Johnson & Johnson in 1953, settling in New Jersey. Over
the next decade he would register 5 US patents and 2 co-
patents [9] including four patents for tampons.[10] His only
son Eric was born in New Jersey in 1953.
1.2 Toward events
Whilst working as a chemist (a job that he would keep
until 1965), Brecht became increasingly interested in art
that explored chance. Initially influenced by Jackson Pol-
lock, and Robert Rauschenberg - Rauschenberg’s exhibi-
tion of grass seeds, Growing Painting, 1954, left 'a sig-
nificant impression on him' [9] - he began to formulate
ideas about 'chance method schemes’ that would eventu-
ally be printed as a booklet by the Something Else Press
as Chance Imagery (1957/66). The work was 'a system-

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atic investigation of the role of chance in the 20th cen-
tury in the fields of science and avant-garde art... re-
veal[ing] his respect for Dadaist and surrealist projects
as well as for the more complex aspects of the work
of Marcel Duchamp, whom he considered the embodi-
ment of the 'artist-researcher'.[11] Artworks in this period
included bed-sheets stained with ink he called Chance
Paintings.
In 1957, Brecht sought out the artist Robert Watts, af-
ter seeing his work exhibited at Douglass College, Rut-
gers University, where Watts taught. This led to lunch
meetings once a week for a number of years at a cafe
between the university and Brecht’s laboratory.[12] Watts’
colleague Allan Kaprow would also regularly attend these
informal meetings. Discussions at these lunches would
lead directly to the setting up of the Yam Festival, 1962–
63, by Watts and Brecht, seen as one of the most im-
portant precursors to Fluxus.[13] The meetings also led to
both Brecht and Kaprow attending John Cage's class at
The New School for Social Research, New York, often
driving down together from New Brunswick.
1.3 John Cage and the New School for So- organised his first one-man show at the Reuben Gallery,
cial Research New York. Called Towards Events: An Arrangement, it
Brecht studied with John Cage between 1958 and
1959,[14] during which time he invented, and then re-
fined, the Event Score [15][16] which would become a cen-
tral feature of Fluxus. Typically, Event Scores are sim-
ple instructions to complete everyday tasks which can be
performed publicly, privately, or negatively (i.e., deciding
not to perform them at all). These ideas would be taken
up and expanded upon up by La Monte Young, Yoko Ono
and many other avant-garde artists who passed through
these classes.[17] The two had originally met in 1957 when
Brecht heard that Cage was planning to hunt mushrooms
in the New Jersey area; he rang him up and invited him to
'stop by and say hello'. Cage accepted, and returned the
invitation; it was whilst Brecht, Kaprow and their fami-
lies were visiting his house in Stony Point on the Hudson,
that Cage invited them to attend his classes in New York.
Ironically, musicians found the course far harder than the
visual artists who had enrolled;
“Cage... was very keenly a philosophical
mind, not just an artist’s mind; his sense of
aesthetics was secondary and thought was pri-
mary. He impressed me immediately. So I
thought, well, who cares if he’s a musician and
I'm a painter. This is unimportant. It’s the
mind that transcends any medium.....
“The rate of attrition was something fierce.
The end result was that there were very few
musician types and the event nature of the
class became apparent. George Brecht’s under-
standing of an intimate situation was far greater
NEW YORK AVANT-GARDE
than mine. I needed more space to really work.
But George really came to life in that situa-
tion..... He became a leader; and immediately
he influenced not only me, but everybody else:
Jackson Maclow, Higgins, Hansen. George Se-
gal stopped by, and so did Dine, Whitman and
Oldenburg.” Allan Kaprow [17]
Initially writing theatrical scores similar to Kaprow’s ear-
liest Happenings, Brecht grew increasingly dissatisfied
with the didactic nature of these performances. After
performing in one such piece, Cage quipped that he'd
“never felt so controlled before.”[18] prompting Brecht
to pare the scores down to haiku-like statements, leav-
ing space for radically different interpretations each time
the piece was performed. Brecht would later refer to
Cage as his 'liberator',[1] whilst, in the opinion of some
critics,[1][19] moving beyond Cage’s notion of music; Cage
was still writing scores to be performed. Brecht had re-
placed this with a world permeated with music. “No mat-
ter what you do,” he said, “you're always hearing some-
thing.” [1]
In October 1959, fresh from studying with Cage, Brecht
was neither an exhibition of objects or a performance, but
somewhere in between.[20] Comprising works that em-
phasised time, the works could be manipulated by the
viewer in various ways, revealing sounds, smells and tac-
tile textures. One, Case, instructed viewers to unpack the
contents and to use them 'in ways appropriate to their na-
ture.' This work would become Valoche (see ), the last
Fluxus multiple that George Maciunas, the 'Chairman' of
Fluxus, would work on before his death 19 years later.[21]
2 New York avant-garde
2.1 Flute Solo
In a frequently retold anecdote used to describe the ori-
gins of one of Brecht’s most personal Event Scores, the
artist recalled an incident when his father had a 'nervous
breakdown [22] ' during a rehearsal at the Metropolitan
Opera Orchestra;
'[A] soprano was bugging everybody with
temper tantrums during rehearsal. At a cer-
tain point the orchestra crashed onto a major
seventh and there was silence for the soprano
and flute cadenza. Nothing happened. The so-
prano looked into the orchestra pit and saw that
my father had completely taken apart his flute,
down to the last screw. (I used this idea in my
1962 FLUTE SOLO).' George Brecht [22]
Michael Nyman, the interviewer, responded that in
Brecht’s work “sound-producing instruments [in the
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Event-Scores] have been made mute (the violin, in author, and appreciated Maciunas’ ability at organisation
Solo for Violin Viola Cello or Contrabass, is polished, and design.
not played), and non-sounding instruments, or non-
instruments, for instance a comb (Comb Music, 1962) are 'The people in Fluxus had understood,
made sounding.[1] " Another piece, Solo for Wind Instru- as Brecht explained, that “concert halls, the-
ment, contained the single instruction (putting it down). aters, and art galleries” were “mummifying.”
Later in his life, when asked about his father, Brecht Instead, these artists found themselves “pre-
replied that "[he] gave up music-making in the mid-'30s ferring streets, homes, and railway stations....”
by lying down and not breathing any more on the couch Maciunas recognized a radical political poten-
at 165 W. 82nd Street, where we were living at the time.” tial in all this forthrightly anti-institutional pro-
[1] duction, which was an important source for
his own deep commitment to it. Deploying
his expertise as a professional graphic designer,
2.2 The Yam Festival Maciunas played an important role in project-
ing upon Fluxus whatever coherence it would
As Brecht’s interest in Event Scores began to dominate his later seem to have had.' [27]
output, he started to mail small cards bearing the scores
to various friends “like little enlightenments I wanted to Brecht would remain a prominent member of Fluxus un-
communicate to my friends who would know what to do til Maciunas’ death, 1978. His work was included in each
with them.[23] " of the major Festum Fluxorum performances in Europe,
This method of distribution - soon to become known as 1962–63; in Fluxus 1, 1963, the first Flux Yearbook; as
mail art - would become the basis for the buildup to the part of the various Fluxkits, collecting works by the group
Yam Festival (May backwards), mid 1962-May 1963, or- together; and was a key part of Flux performances and ob-
ganised with Robert Watts. The mailed scores were in- jects right up to the Flux Harpsichord Concert, 1976 and
tended to build anticipation for a month long series of the last Flux Cabinets. An indication of his importance
events held in New York and on George Segal’s farm, within the group is captured in a letter from Maciunas to
New Jersey. Featuring a large cross section of avant- Emmett Williams, April 1963, concerning plans Maci-
garde artists, the festival was based around the idea of unas had been formulating with the marxist intellectual
operating 'as an alternative to the gallery system, produc- Henry Flynt;
ing art that could not be bought'.[24] Artists participating
in the festival included Alison Knowles, Allan Kaprow, 'Bad news! George Brecht wants out of
John Cage, Al Hansen, Ay-O, Dick Higgins, Karlheinz Fluxus, thinks Fluxus is getting too aggres-
Stockhausen and Ray Johnson. The festival has come to sive (this newsletter No.6 [Propaganda through
be seen as a proto-fluxus event, involving many of the pickets and demonstrations, sabotage and dis-
same artists. ruption]). So we will have to compromise, find
One of the recipients of the mail shots (as well as a partic- a midpoint between Flynt, Paik & Brecht (if a
ipant in the festival) was La Monte Young. Young, a mu- midway can be found!) It would be very bad
sician who had arrived in New York September 1960,[25] without Brecht. He is the best man in New
had been asked to guest edit a special edition of Beatitude York (I think)....' [28]
East on avant-garde art, which evolved into the seminal
It was Maciunas who conceived of (and published) Water
compendium, An Anthology Of Chance (see ) Brecht was
Yam, a collection of around 70 of Brecht’s event scores
the first artist listed in the compendium; the graphic de-
packaged in a cardboard box [29] published in Wiesbaden,
signer and publisher of the book was George Maciunas,
April 1963. The first Fluxbox, it was intended to be part
who had been attending the same music classes, although
of a series of boxes containing the complete works of each
by now they were being given by Richard Maxfield.
of the members of Fluxus. In keeping with Maciunas’
principles, the boxes were neither numbered or signed,
2.3 George Maciunas and the beginnings and originally sold for $4.[30]
of Fluxus Many of his other Fluxus multiples involved absurdist
puzzles which were impossible to resolve in a traditional
Fluxus was to grow out of Maciunas’ friendship with the manner (see ).
artists centred on these classes; his conception of Fluxus
was based on LEF, a communist organisation set up in
Russia in the 1920s to help create a new socialist cul- 2.4 Other works
ture [26] Whilst it is unlikely Brecht agreed with Maciunas
politically, he strongly agreed with the notion of the un- Whilst the pieces he made for the Fluxus cooperative
professional status of the artist, the de-privileging of the remain his most famous works, he continued to exhibit
4 3 EUROPE

artworks within more traditional gallery spaces through-

out the 1960s and 1970s. Many of these works played
with the notion of the Readymade, attempting to retain
the pieces’ functionality. Chairs feature in a lot of these
works; the earliest was Three Chair Events exhibited at
the Martha Jackson Gallery, NY, 1961.
Three Chair Events

• Sitting on a black chair. Occurrence.

• Yellow Chair. (Occurrence.)
• On (or near) a white chair. Occurrence,
Spring 1961

For the exhibition, the white chair was spot-lit in the mid-
dle of the gallery with a stack of Three Chair Events scores
placed nearby on a window sill. The black chair was
placed in the bathroom, whilst the yellow chair was placed
outside on the street, and was being sat on by Claes Old-
enburg's mother - deep in conversation - when Brecht ar-
rived for the private view.[31] A later piece, Chair With A
History, 1966, part of a series Brecht worked on in Rome,
featured a chair with a red book placed on it inviting the
occupier to add 'whatever was happening' as part of an on-
going record of the chair’s history [1] (see ). Other series
of works included signs - often readymade - with simple
statements on, such as 'Exit' or 'Notice Green' embossed
in a red sign next to 'Notice Red' embossed on a green
one (see ).
Brecht started a series called The Book of the Tumbler
on Fire in 1964, and exhibited the first 56 at the Fis-
chback Gallery NY in early 1965, shortly before leaving
the US. The pieces consisted of framed collages, made
of cotton-filled specimen boxes, designed to show “the
continuity of unlike things.” [32] Brecht would pursue this
series for over a decade, with each piece being referred
to as a 'page'.
3 Europe
3.1 The Cedilla That Smiles
Maciunas’ decision to picket a Stockhausen concert of
Originale in August 1964 is often seen as the point at
which the original, 'heroic' era of Fluxus splintered;[33]
the move seems to have alienated Brecht [34] who, whilst
not severing relations, left New York in the spring of
1965 for Europe, despite Cage allegedly spending a whole
evening trying to persuade him to stay.[35]
He arrived in Rome, April 1965; from there he moved to
Villefranche-sur-Mer, France, to start a shop, La Cédille
qui Sourit, (The Cedilla That Smiles), with the French
artist Robert Filliou, another member of Fluxus. The
shop was intended to explore ideas about the 'obtuse re-
lationship(s) to the institution of language'[36] but instead
Untitled (Blackboard map of Europe) from the series Land Mass
Translocations, 1970, private collection, Vaduz
ushered in what he described cheerfully as “accelerated
creative inactivity”.[4]
3.2 Land Mass Translocations
After the shop closed in 1968, Brecht moved to London,
where he formed a new company, 'Brecht and MacDi-
armid', which proposed a number of Land Mass Translo-
cations. As a pilot project, Brecht suggested moving the
Isle of Wight westward to Portland Bill.
“One of us (GB) proposed in 1966 that
the Arctic ice pack be interchanged with the
Antarctic, and in the winter of 1967-8, in Lon-
don, the idea of moving England closer to the
equator presented itself. This intuition was re-
inforced by recent scientific studies which have
shown that England is being tilted... at a rate
such that areas of London 15 meters above sea
level or less will be submerged in 1500 years
time. Considering that London has been an in-
habited place for at least 2000 years, this is
not as remote an event as it seems. In this
light, Brecht and MacDiarmid are undertak-
ing research into the feasibility of moving land
masses over the surface of the earth..... Move-
ment of the Isle of Wight would be a pilot
project for the larger translocation of England.”
George Brecht, B.Sc.[37]
In November 1969, Cornelius Cardew's Scratch Orches-
tra (see ) performed Realization of the Journey of the Isle
of Wight Westwards by Iceberg to Tokyo Bay, a piece
based on Brecht’s Translocations, in London. Other
imagined moves included Cuba moving alongside Miami,
and Iceland moving next to Spain.
3.4 Last years
Void Stone, 1987, Arp-Museum, Rolandseck
3.3 Translating the Hsin-Hsin-Ming
As part of his lifelong interest in Zen Buddhism, Brecht
began a focused study of the Chinese language with the
aim of translating the ancient text the Hsin-Hsin-Ming by
Seng Ts’an, c600 AD, in 1976. The book, published in
1980, included three autonomous translations; an English
version by Brecht, a French one by Filliou and a German
version by A Fabri. It also included calligraphy by Takako
Saito.
Other works completed in this period include a se-
ries of Crystal Boxes, containing constantly transform-
ing crystals; a performance and lecture 'with slides, mu-
sic and fireworks’ called The Chemistry of Music given
at the ICA; The Brunch Museum, an exhibition dedi-
cated to relics associated with the (fictional) character
WE Brunch; a play entitled 'Silent Music' broadcast on
West German Radio as part of celebrations for John
Cage’s 75th birthday; and 3 large sculptures, called Void
Stones, commissioned for the Skulptur Projekte Münster.
'[The Chemistry of Music & The Brunch
Museum are two of the] three projects that
Brecht called “meta-creations”. The first, from
1968, is a slide-based lecture under the title
The Chemistry of Music, which offers a cri-
tique of the lecture format as the predomi-
nating method of teaching. The second, The
San Antonio Installation, is based on extracts
from a popular series of French detective nov-
els by the author San Antonio. The excerpts
consist in an eccentric collection of articles
(many of them found in French flea markets)
which materialise details of the narrations and
which present a kind of antidote against pas-
sive experience – in this case, the mechani-
cal absorption of cheap literature. The third
project is The Brunch Museum, an ingenious
“exhibited object” of the life and work of W.
E. Brunch, an imaginary figure of “great his-
torical importance” invented by Brecht and the
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artist Stephan Kukowski (now Stephan Shake-
speare). As in the case of the lecture model and
novel, this project challenges institutionalised
forms of representation and dissemination of
information.' [38]
3.4 Last years
Whilst his work continued to be included in a number of
major group shows, by 1989 he would refer to himself
as 'retired from fluxus’.[1] Becoming increasingly reclu-
sive, he only allowed two retrospectives of his work in
the last 30 years of his life; both were called 'A Het-
erospective' (loosely translated as a 'Collection of Oth-
ernesses’). The second, a large museum exhibition that
was shown in Cologne and Barcelona, 2005–06, opened
with a simple sign marked 'End' and ended with another
stating 'Start'.[39]
In 2006 he won the prestigious Berliner Kunstpreis. From
late 1971 Brecht lived in Cologne, where he died, after a
number of years of failing health,[7] on 5 December 2008.
His first marriage ended in 1963; he married for a second
time, to Hertha Klang, in 2002. He lived with Donna Jo
Brewer for a number of years between.
“John Cage seems to think that if he con-
tacts the most people possible, they (or some-
one) will understand. I think, if someone un-
derstands, they will contact me (my work, the
work). Leave the people alone.” [40]
4 See also
• An Anthology of Chance Operations
• Fluxus at Rutgers University
• Fluxus
• George Maciunas
• Robert Watts
• John Cage
• Variations, contemporaneous compositions by John
Cage
• 4′33″, Cage’s most famous composition, 1952
• Ray Johnson, a close friend and collaborator in
Brecht’s mail art
• Something Else Press, run by Dick Higgins, pub-
lisher of 2 of Brecht’s works
• Water Yam (artist’s book)
• Fluxus 1, the first Flux Yearbox
• One and Three Chairs, an artwork by Joseph Ko-
suth, 1965
6 7 NOTES
5 References
• Water Yam, George Brecht, Fluxus Edition, Wies-
baden and New York, 1963–70
• V Tre, later cc V TRE, Fluxus Newspaper, edited
by George Brecht and George Maciunas, New York,
1963–79
• Chance Imagery, George Brecht, Something Else
Press, New York, 1966
• Games at the Cedilla; or, The Cedilla Takes Off, by
George Brecht & Robert Filliou, Something Else
Press, New York, 1967
• An introduction to George Brecht’s Book of the Tum-
bler on Fire, Henry Martin, Multhipla Edizioni, Mi-
lan, 1978.
• Water Yam, George Brecht, Lebeer-Hossmann Edi-
tion, Brussels/Hamburg, 1986
• Fluxus Codex, Jon Hendricks, H.N. Abrams, New
York, 1988, ISBN 0-8109-0920-0
• Notebooks / George Brecht ; edited by Dieter Daniels
with collaboration of Hermann Braun, vol 1-5, Wal-
ter Konig, c1991
• Mr Fluxus, Emmett Williams and Ann Noël,
Thames and Hudson, New York, 1998, ISBN 0-
500-97461-6
• Fluxus Experience by Hannah Higgins, University of
California Press, 2002, ISBN 0-520-22867-7
• George Brecht: Events - A Heterospective, Verlag
der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, 2005, ISBN 3-
88375-979-1
• Petra Stegmann. The lunatics are on the loose
… EUROPEAN FLUXUS FESTIVALS 1962-1977,
DOWN WITH ART!, Potsdam, 2012, ISBN 978-
3-9815579-0-9.
• George Brecht: Museum Ludwig, Yve-Alain Bois,
ArtForum, 2006
• George Brecht, Philosopher of Fluxus, Jill Johnston,
The Dance Insider, 2007
6 External links
• The Something Else pamphlet Chance Imagery and
Book of the Tumbler on Fire available as 2 pdfs on
UbuWeb
• Repository, 1961, a piece by Brecht in the collection
at MOMA
• Word Event • Exit, 1961
• An article about Robert Watts, including an inter-
view with Brecht about the Yam Festival
• The first edition of V TRE, 1963, edited by Brecht,
featuring contributions from Dieter Roth, Angus
Maclise and Jackson Mac Low
• An Anthology of Chance, edited by La Monte
Young; a pdf on Ubuweb
• Entrance to Exit, 1965; a Fluxfilm by Brecht
• A complete list of all Brecht’s multiples
• Some late multiples by Brecht
• George Brecht at the-artists.org
• George Brecht retrospective
• Dutch Biography of Brecht
• George Brecht Resources
• George Brecht + James Tenney with George Maci-
unas, Entrance... (excerpt) 1:46 published on the
Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine
• A good essay on Brecht by Anna Dezeuze
• New York Times obituary
7 Notes
[1] The Johnston Letters, Jill Johnston
[2] George Brecht: Events, A Heterospective, Robinson,
Walter König, p36
[3] Essay on Brecht by Yve-Alain Bois
[4] Independent Obituary
[5] Brecht is the first artist mentioned in the text of Lucy Lip-
pard’s seminal history of Conceptual Art, Six years: the
dematerialization of the art object from 1966 to 1972, and
is referred to as 'Independently and in association with the
fluxus group, Brecht has been making “events” that have
anticipated a stricter “conceptual art” since around 1960.'
Six Years, Lucy R Lippard, University of California Press,
1973, p11
[6] Brecht used the term as early as 1957-58 in an essay
Project in Multiple Dimensions; 'The primary function
of my art seems to be an expression of maximum mean-
ing with a minimal image, that is, the achievement of an
art of multiple implications, through simple, even austere,
means. This is accomplished, it seems to me, by mak-
ing use of all available conceptual and material resources.'
Quoted in Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art,
K Stiles, P Selz, University of California Press, 1996 p333
[7] Obituary, New York Times
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[8] The reference to Halfway, Oregon, was a joke that ap-
peared in an early fluxus periodical. A more reliable date
is given in the book accompanying the major retrospective
in Cologne, 2005; George Brecht Events; A Heterospec-
tive, p306 Robinson, Walter König
[30] Price listed in the Fluxus Preview Review, July 1963,
quoted in the Fluxus Codex, Hendricks, Abrams, 1989
p217
[31] A Heterospective, p56

[9] George Brecht Events; A Heterospective, p306 Robinson, [32] A Heterospective, p144
Walter König 2005
[33] The Origins of Culture Stewart Home
[10] He was sufficiently proud of these to include these patents [34] Drama/theatre/performance By Simon Shepherd, Mick
in his Heterospective, Cologne 2005 Wallis, p93
[11] Essay on Brecht by Julia Robinson, for MACBA, [35] Brecht for Beginners, Anna Dezeuze
Barcelona
[36] George Brecht Events; A Heterospective, Robinson, Wal-
[12] An Interview with George Brecht ter König p318
[13] Essay on Fluxus by Michael Corris, MOMA online [37] George Brecht quoted in Land Mass Translocations infor-
mation sheet, 1969
[14] According to Julia Robinson, the first event score was
'Time-table Music', in which the whole class went to [38] Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona
Grand Central Station 'where they used train timetables
to create a composition, timing their visual, auditory and [39] Guardian Obituary.
perceptual observations at the site.' see
[40] George Brecht c1977, quoted in A Heterospective, p8
[15] Kristine Stiles & Peter Selz, Theories and Documents of
Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists’ Writings (Sec-
ond Edition, Revised and Expanded by Kristine Stiles)
University of California Press 2012, p. 333

[16] Alison Knowles Website

[17] Allan Kaprow in conversation with Sidney Simon, early

70’s. Quoted in George Brecht Events; A Heterospective,
Robinson, Walter König p264

[18] Quoted in George Brecht, by Yve-Alain Bois

[19] George Brecht, Oxford Art Online

[20] George Brecht Events; A Heterospective, Robinson, Wal-

ter König p34

[21] Koan, from the same show, would also be considered as

a Fluxus multiple, but only got so far as two incomplete
maquettes, renamed 'A Question or More'. See Fluxus
Codex, p183

[22] GB in interview with Michael Nyman, quoted in George

Brecht Events; A Heterospective, Robinson, Walter König
p284

[23] Brecht quoted in A Heterospective, p70

[24] A Heterospective, p68

[25] Four musical minimalists: La Monte Young, Terry Riley,

Steve Reich, Philip Glass By Keith Potter, p49

[26] LEF program:'LEF shall agitate art with the ideas of the
commune , opening for art the road to tomorrow.'

[27] Brecht quoted in A Heterospective, p118

[28] George Maciunas quoted in Mr Fluxus, E Williams and A

Noel, Thames and Hudson, 1997, p95-96

[29] Or wooden in the case of the de-luxe edition, or plastic in

later editions
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8.2 Images
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Stone_01.JPG License: Public domain Contributors: Own work Original artist: Warburg
• File:Koan.jpg Source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c8/Koan.jpg License: Fair use Contributors:
George Brecht Events; A Heterospective, Robinson, Walter König
Original artist: ?
• File:LandMassTranslocations.jpg Source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7f/LandMassTranslocations.jpg License: Fair
use Contributors:
George Brecht Events; A Heterospective, Robinson, Walter König
Original artist: ?

8.3 Content license

• Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0