| LC control no. | n 88617606 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3552.R36 |
| Personal name heading | Brecht, George |
| Variant(s) | MacDiarmid, George |
| Birth date | 1926-08-27 |
| Death date | 2008-12-05 |
| Place of birth | New York (N.Y.) |
| Place of death | Cologne (Germany) |
| Profession or occupation | Artists |
| Found in | nuc87-57908: Hughes, P. Vicious circles and infinity, 1978 (hdg. on ArU rept.: Brecht, George; usage: George Brecht) LC data base, 3/9/88 (hdg.: Brecht, George) George Brecht, c2004: p. 67 (b. Aug. 27, 1926, New York City) New York times WWW site, Dec. 16, 2008 (in obituary published Dec. 15: George Brecht; b. George MacDiarmid, Aug. 27, 1926, New York; changed his last name to Brecht around 1945 while serving in the United States Army in Germany; d. Dec. 5, Cologne, aged 82; core member of Fluxus, the loosely affiliated international group of playful Conceptual artists that emerged in the early 1960s) George Brecht, 1969: biography (born 1925 in Halfway, Oregon) Wikipedia, viewed March 19, 2021 (George Brecht; born George Ellis MacDiarmid in New York, August 27, 1926; reference to Halfway, Oregon, was a joke that appeared in an early Fluxus periodical; a reliable [birth] date is given in the book accompanying the major retrospective in Cologne, 2005, George Brecht: Events: A Heterospective) ULAN, viewed March 19, 2021 (access point: Brecht, George; cited biographies give birth year as either 1925 or 1926) |
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