George Brecht
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George Brecht (August 27, 1926 – December 5, 2008) was an American 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.
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- conceptual artist
- An Anthology of Chance Operations
- Fluxus at Rutgers University
- Fluxus
- George Maciunas
- Robert Watts
- John Cage
- Variations, contemporaneous compositions by John Cage
- 4′33″, Cage's most famous composition, 1952
- Ray Johnson, a close friend and collaborator in Brecht's mail art
- Something Else Press, run by Dick Higgins, publisher of 2 of Brecht's works
- Water Yam (artist's book)
- Fluxus 1, the first Flux Yearbox
- One and Three Chairs, an artwork by Joseph Kosuth, 1965
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