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George Brecht

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1925 US. Fluxus composer and performance artist. One of the fathers of conceptual art and Minimalist Visual Art. He was very fond of creating Instruction pieces. One of his more famous pieces is called "Water Yam" which is a box of Instruction pieces on seperate pieces of paper. One is asked to pick the pieces out one at a time. Studied under John Cage in his New School for Social Research. He worked with Alan Kaprow on the Happenings of that time. Worked with Nam June Paik on various collaborative pieces. Currently he resides in Cologne.


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Yoko Ono Fluxus Instruction Piece Alison Knowles
Conceptualism Robert Filliou Eternal Network : A Mail Art Anthology Performance Art
Carolee Schneemann Something Else Press Henry Flynt Al Hansen
Nam June Paik Ben Vautier minimalism Happenings
Allan Kaprow Ken Friedman Dick Higgins Ray Johnson
conceptual art Emmett Williams experimental music New School for Social Research
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