Collection Games and Puzzles: Swim Puzzle

Games and Puzzles: Swim Puzzle

George Brecht, Artist George Maciunas, Collaborator
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Games and Puzzles: Swim Puzzle

between 1965 and 1972

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

Plastic, clam shell, paper, and ink

Overall: 1/2 × 5 × 4 inches (1.3 × 12.7 × 10.2 cm)

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Contemporary Art after 1950

Gift of Gilbert B. and Lila Silverman Fluxus Foundation

2008.463

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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. 201 (ill.).

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George Brecht; George Maciunas, Games and Puzzles: Swim Puzzle, between 1965 and 1972, plastic, clam shell, paper, and ink. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Gilbert B. and Lila Silverman Fluxus Foundation, 2008.463.

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