{"id":2342,"date":"2009-01-10T00:44:14","date_gmt":"2009-01-10T05:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=2342"},"modified":"2009-01-09T21:52:29","modified_gmt":"2009-01-10T02:52:29","slug":"george-brecht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=2342","title":{"rendered":"George Brecht"},"content":{"rendered":"

George Brecht died just over a month ago, on December 5, 2008; I’ve finally gotten around to writing a brief appreciation. A conceptual artist, Brecht created “scores” of events to be performed. I am particularly fond of Brecht because most of his scores are simple enough that you can recreate them yourself; yet they are no less beautiful than the art you see in museums. Like this one:<\/p>\n

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CHAIR EVENT<\/p>\n

  on a white chair<\/p>\n

    a grater
\n    tape measure
\n    alphabet
\n    flag<\/p>\n

    black
\n      and spectral colors<\/p>\n

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Sometimes you don’t have to do anything to perform one of his scores, you just have to pay attention to beauty that’s already there; as with this one:<\/p>\n

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TWO DURATIONS<\/p>\n

  Red
\n  Green<\/p>\n

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It’s art for the common folk, because you can afford to have one of Brecht’s works in your house (whereas I doubt you could afford any art done by, say, Hockney). Even though he hadn’t done much work in recent years, his death is a real loss.<\/p>\n

One last example: here’s my version of Brecht’s “Exhibit.”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

George Brecht died just over a month ago, on December 5, 2008; I’ve finally gotten around to writing a brief appreciation. A conceptual artist, Brecht created “scores” of events to be performed. I am particularly fond of Brecht because most of his scores are simple enough that you can recreate them yourself; yet they are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2342"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2349,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342\/revisions\/2349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}