Collection Games and Puzzles: Bead Puzzle

Games and Puzzles: Bead Puzzle

George Brecht, Artist George Maciunas, Collaborator
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About the Artwork

Games and Puzzles: Bead Puzzle

1965

George Brecht (Artist) American, 1926 - 2008 George Maciunas (Collaborator) American, 1931 - 1978

Plastic, beads, twine, paper, and ink

Overall: 1 1/4 × 5 × 4 inches (3.2 × 12.7 × 10.2 cm)

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Contemporary Art after 1950

Gift of Gilbert B. and Lila Silverman Fluxus Foundation

2008.465

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Signed on score: G. Brecht.

Inscribed on score, printed black on white card stock: BEAD PUZZLE | Cut cord so that beads do not separate. | Find another solution. | Repeat, beyond farthest colution. | G.Brecht.

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2009-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Hendricks, Jon, ed. Fluxus Etc. Detroit, 1981, p. 79 (ill.).

Hendricks, Jon. Fluxus Codex. New York, 1988, pp. 198-199 (ill.).

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George Brecht; George Maciunas, Games and Puzzles: Bead Puzzle, 1965, plastic, beads, twine, paper, and ink. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Gilbert B. and Lila Silverman Fluxus Foundation, 2008.465.

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