{"title":"George Brecht","description":"\u003cp\u003eGeorge Brecht (1926–2008) was an American artist and chemist whose practice was central to the development of Fluxus. From the late 1950s, Brecht produced event scores — brief written instructions for actions that could be performed by anyone, anywhere — that dissolved the boundary between art and everyday life. His \u003cem\u003eWater Yam\u003c\/em\u003e (1963), a box of event score cards published by Fluxus, remains one of the defining objects of the movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrecht studied with John Cage at the New School for Social Research in New York and was closely associated with George Maciunas, Yoko Ono, and other Fluxus artists. His practice anticipated conceptual art's interest in instruction, indeterminacy, and the dematerialisation of the art object. He lived and worked in Cologne from 1972 until his death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublications gathered here include artist books, event scores, and printed matter relating to George Brecht's practice. Original and period items.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"in-deed-certificates-of-authenticity-in-art-hapgood-lauf-roma-publications-2011","title":"In Deed: Certificates of Authenticity in Art, ed. Hapgood \u0026 Lauf, ROMA Publications, 2011","description":"\u003cp\u003eSoftcover. 104 pages, 19 × 27 cm. Published by ROMA Publications \/ De Vleeshal, 2011.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: Good vintage condition. Light handling wear, minor surface marks, softened corners, and gentle age-related wear consistent with storage and circulation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished in conjunction with the travelling exhibition \u003cem\u003eIn Deed: Certificates of Authenticity in Art\u003c\/em\u003e, this volume gathers artists for whom the certificate, instruction, contract, receipt, signature, declaration, and administrative document become inseparable from the artwork itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncludes Marcel Duchamp, Yves Klein, Piero Manzoni, George Brecht, Dan Flavin, Daniel Buren, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, Lawrence Weiner, Adrian Piper, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Yoko Ono, Robert Barry, Seth Siegelaub, Carey Young, Andrea Fraser, Liam Gillick, Maria Eichhorn, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book describes works that depend on documents for their status. A certificate authorizes an object, replaces an object, transfers an object, or becomes the object. Authorship and ownership appear through paper, signature, instruction, edition, and record.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere, the publication enters a related chain. It documents certificates while becoming another document of transfer: retained, priced, described, and placed back into circulation. The catalogue does not only explain the movement of artworks through administrative forms; it now participates in that movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA key title on conceptual art, dematerialized practice, and the legal and poetic life of the artwork after production. Increasingly elusive in the trade.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShipping and handling included in the listed price.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ROMA Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53625786433874,"sku":"HAPGOOD-LAUF-ROMAPUB-CAT-2011","price":300.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Lauf_Cornelia_Hapgood_Susan._In_Deed_Certificates_of_Authenticity_in_Art._2011_cover.jpg?v=1780391892"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/george-brecht.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}