Your Name Spelled with Objects: George Brecht

George Maciunas

1976

A compact Fluxus multiple: a metal cigar box containing an offset card and an assortment of found objects that Brecht arranged so viewers could 'spell' a name with things, turning identity into a playful conceptual provocation.

Opening it reads like a tiny cabinet of curiosities—an orange, a pinecone, an egg, wooden pieces and glassy fragments set against worn cigar-label graphics, their varied colors and textures feeling like a tangible alphabet.

Part of Fluxus’s questioning of art’s boundaries, this piece uses everyday objects and chance to dematerialize authorship and show how meaning and identity can be made from ordinary materials.

Palette

Art Terms

Fluxus Multiple Found object Conceptual art Readymade Assemblage Artist collective

Exhibitions

Recent Acquisitions

1950

BERLINART 1961–1987

1987

Selections from the Art Lending Service

1960

Cubism and Its Affinities

1976