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Brecht, George, 1926-2008

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1926 August 27 - 2008 December 5

Nationality

American

Found in 129 Collections and/or Records:

Pictures To Be Read/Poetry To Be Seen [box], 1967

 Item — Box 291: [Barcode: 31858072460706]
Identifier: CC-04845-4938
Scope and Contents

This duplicates the correspondence for the exhibition archive and includes letters and cards by Arakawa, George Brecht, Tenny Duchamp, Ovind Fahlstrom, Ray Johnson, Allan Kaprow, Alison Knowles, Ron Kitaj, Gianni Simonetti, and Wolf Vostell. There are drawings by Baruchello, Mary Bauermeister, George Brecht, and James Nutt, and a collage by Granni Simonetti that deals with plans for assembling the found objects to be placed in a plexiglas box by museum personnel. The box is also accompanied by the catalogue of the exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Revues D'Artistes: Une selection / Marie Boivent, curator ; Vostell W ; Finlay IH ; Brecht G ; Maciunas G ; Chopin H ; Johnson P ; Mayer HJ ; DeVries H ; Gette PA ; Copley W ; Padin C ; Art & Language ; Marroquin R ; General Idea ; Ehrenberg F ; Mayor D ; Banana A ; Gaglione B ; Schraenen G ; Roth D ; Nannucci M ; Blaine J ; Petasz P ; Carrion U ; Flores A ; VanBarneveld A ; Feldmann HP ; Ben ; Baroni V ; Pittore-Eurifico C ; Penck A., 2008

 Item
Identifier: CC-51067-72148
Scope and Contents

This catalogue provides descriptions and images of international artists' magazines from 1960 to 2008 that were exhibited in Cabinet du Livre d'Artiste in Rennes, Galerie des Urbanistes in Fougeres and Lendroit Galerie in Rennes. It lists a number of French magazines that are not known to the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

Robert Filliou / Art Base ; Brecht G ; Spoerri D ; Higgins D ; Sandberg W., 2001

 Item
Identifier: CC-37732-39607
Scope and Contents

This catalogue lists publications of Filliou as well as individual and group exhibitions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Robert Filliou / Art Base ; Filliou R ; Brecht G ; Spoerri D ; Topor R ; Roth D ; Williams E ; Vostell W ; Higgins D ; Crozier R ; Beuys J., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-34477-36174
Scope and Contents

Lists multiples, publications, prints and ephemera of Filliou and collaborators. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

The Book of the Art of Artists' Books, 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-22715-23150
Scope and Contents

The exhibition was based upon the "Metamorphoses des Kunstlerbuches" that was presented as part of Documenta VI in 1977 in Kassel, West Germany. The text was written in German by Rolf Dittmar and translated to English and Farsi for this catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

The Green, the Red, the Yellow, the Black, and the White, 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-22281-22704
Scope and Contents

The introduction was written by Robert Filliou. Each page depicts a grid of images appropriated from an encylopedia. The images are printed in green except for the loose print that in red. The images are captioned by text in the encyclopedia or text added by the authors. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

This Sentence is Weightless / George Brecht., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-23756-24203
Scope and Contents

The text of this work reads "This Sentence Is Weightless." The perforated, stencil-like aluminum letters hang vertically from a small scale which registers no weight. The artist plays on the expression "a weighty sentence." A photograph of the object is reproduced in Kunstforum No.37, 1980, p. 40 held by the Sackner Archive." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975