George Brecht
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George Brecht |
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Male |
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New York, United States |
| Nationality: |
American |
| Birth: |
1926 |
| Death: |
2008 |
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Conceptual |
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Sculpture
Performance
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Biography
| Brecht studied at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science from 1946 to 1950 and 1958-9 attended the class in Experimental Composition given by John Cage in the New School for Social Research in New York. As fellow students soon associated with the performance art events known as Happenings and with the emergence of the movement Fluxus, Brecht was influenced by Cages dissolution of the boundaries between art, poetry, music, literature and theater and the role of opportunity and play in the creative act. After composing music with built-in opportunity lengths or creating tens of elements of the game as playing cards, he found music in their own too restrictive and conceived the event as the determination structure for their work. The joint sculptural created by Brecht since the end of the 50s were sometimes reminiscent of the Surrealist box constructions of Joseph Cornell, but in these works, objects often appears as invitations to the viewer to commit themselves to the work of art as if a game. In this regard, Brechts work as a subject-matter remained closely attuned to the aesthetics of their events, although sometimes also encouraging comparisons with the pop art and anticipate the significance of idea on the material fact conceptual art. In 1965, Brecht and Robert Filliou founded The Albany Qui Sourit in Villefranche-sur-Mer, a shop and studio that Brecht described as a center of ideas, a search, a cooperative effort among artists or any other person with an idea to work and that he saw as a way to convey their ideas to a wider audience. Later, he established a number of inventions, some of them patented by the name of Brecht and McDiarmid Research Associates, which were often still imbued with the spirit playful of his art. Since 1972, he lived and worked in Cologne. |
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