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Bremer, Claus, 1924-1996

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1924 July 11 - 1996 May 15

Nationality

German

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

An Anthology [flyer], 1963

 Item — Box 292: [Barcode: 31858072460714]
Identifier: CC-50815-71893
Scope and Contents This object is an announcement card for the publication of "An Anthology." According to 6 Decades Books: LaMonte Young devised this extraordinary pop-up multiple as a prepublication announcement for An Anthology of Chance Operations, the book he co-published with Jackson MacLow in 1963. An Anthology of Chance Operations was designed by George Maciunas and includes work by Young and Mac Low, along with George Brecht, John Cage, Terry Riley, Dick Higgins, Yoko Ono, Henry Flynt, Walter De Maria, Nam June Paik, Dieter Rot, Robert Morris, Al Hansen, and others. The publication is a compendium of the era's dada-inflected avant-garde represented by a collection of works in which traditional boundaries between music, writing, art, and theater were discarded in favor of an aesthetics based ideas, actions, and ephemerality. The book is widely regarded as the high point publication of the Fluxus movement and a founding document of contemporary art. Young created a few dozen copies of the...
Dates: 1963

Texte und Kommentare, 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-33602-35255
Scope and Contents

Includes extensive commentary by Bremer on his concrete and shaped poems. Photographs of the shaped poems are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Texte und Kommentare , 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-23509-23954
Scope and Contents

Includes extensive commentary by Bremer on his concrete and shaped poems. It includes photographs of the shaped poems are held by the Sackner Archive. Claus Bremer was born in 1924 and died in 1996. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968