George Brecht
- Introduction
- 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 companies 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, in which the artwork can only be experienced by the active involvement of the viewer, he is most famous for his Event Scores such as Drip Music 1962, (see Video on YouTube) and is widely seen as an important precursor to conceptual art. 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.”
- Wikidata
- Q686321
- Nationality
- American
- Gender
- Male
- Roles
- Artist, Writer, Conceptual Artist, Painter, Performance Artist, Sculptor
- Names
- George Brecht, George MacDiarmid
- Ulan
- 500045721
Exhibitions
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410: At the Border of Art and Life
Fall 2019–Fall 2020
MoMA
Collection gallery
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Judson Dance Theater: The Work Is Never Done
Sep 16, 2018–Feb 3, 2019
MoMA
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From the Collection:
1960–1969 Mar 26, 2016–Mar 19, 2017
MoMA
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Yoko Ono: One Woman Show,
1960–1971 May 17–Sep 7, 2015
MoMA
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Making Music Modern: Design for Ear and Eye
Nov 15, 2014–Jan 18, 2016
MoMA
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George Brecht has
18 exhibitionsonline.
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George Brecht Card-Piece for Voice from Water Yam 1959
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George Brecht Candle-Piece for Radios 1959
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George Brecht Motor Vehicle Sundown (Event) 1960
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George Brecht Repository 1961
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George Brecht Exhibit Seven (Clock) from Water Yam 1961
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George Brecht Incidental Music from Water Yam 1961
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George Brecht Incidental Music 1961
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George Brecht Exhibit Seven (Clock) or Small Noontime House Number Clock (For Claes) 1961, realized c. 1961
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George Brecht Three Yellow Events 1961
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George Brecht Two Exercises 1961
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George Brecht Exhibit Seven/Six Exhibits/Three Telephone Events 1961
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George Brecht Tea Event 1961
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George Brecht Two Exercises 1961
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George Brecht Comb Music (Comb Event) from Water Yam 1959–62
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George Brecht Concert for Orchestra from Water Yam 1962
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George Brecht Concerto for Clarinet from Water Yam 1962
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George Brecht Flute Solo from Water Yam 1962
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George Brecht, Emmett Williams, George Maciunas George Brecht's Word Event (1961), performed by Emmett Williams and George Maciunas during Fluxus/Musik og Anti-Musik/det Instrumentale Teater, Nikolai Kirke, Copenhagen, November 23, 1962 1962
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George Brecht George Brecht's Incidental Music (1961), performed by Karl-Erik Welin during Fluxus International Festspiele Neuester Musik, Hörsaal des Städtischen Museums, Wiesbaden, September 1, 1962_
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George Brecht Keyhole 1962
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George Brecht George Brecht's Drip Music, performed by Dick Higgins during Fluxus/Musik og Anti-Musik/det Instrumentale Teater, Nikolai Kirke, Copenhagen, November 23, 1962 1962
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George Brecht Direction 1962
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George Brecht Objects and Events (to be arranged by G. Brecht) 1962
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George Brecht Keyhole 1962
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George Brecht Dresser 1962
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George Brecht Announcement for Nectarine 1962
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George Brecht Thank You Call Again 1962
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George Brecht Lucky Strike 1962
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Various Artists, George Brecht, Claus Bremer, Earle Brown, Joseph Byrd, John Cage, Anthony Cox, David Degener, Walter De Maria, Ding Dong, Henry Flynt, Simone Forti, Dick Higgins, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Terry Jennings, Ray Johnson, Jackson Mac Low, Richard Maxfield, Robert Morris, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Terry Riley, Dieter Roth, James Waring, Emmett Williams, Christian Wolff, La Monte Young An Anthology 1962
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George Brecht, Robert Watts Lantern Extract 1962
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George Brecht Yam Festival 1962
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George Brecht A Box of Yam Festival and Other Rubber Stamps 1962
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George Brecht, Robert Watts Announcement card for Delivery Event (Yam Festival Part 5) 1962
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George Brecht Impossible Effort 1962
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George Brecht Keyhole 1962
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George Brecht, Robert Watts Lantern Extract 1962
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George Brecht Moon 1962
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George Brecht Nectarine 1962
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George Brecht Palmolive 1962
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George Brecht Vacutainer 1962
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George Brecht World Language of Signs Sought 1962
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George Brecht Water Yam 1963
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George Brecht Air Conditioning from Water Yam 1963
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George Brecht Bed Event from Water Yam 1963
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George Brecht Candle-Piece for Radios from Water Yam 1963
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George Brecht Chair Event from Water Yam 1963
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George Brecht Chair Event from Water Yam 1963
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George Brecht Direction from Water Yam 1963
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