| Title | Notebook page, reprinted in George Brecht—Notebooks, ed. Dieter Daniels and Hermann Braun, vol. 2 (Cologne: Walther König, 1991), 107 |
| Maker | George Brecht (American, 1926–2008) |
| Date | 21 January 1959 |
| Type | sketches and materials |
| Location | Getty Research Institute, item 92-B17341, vol. 2 |
These notes reveal George Brecht’s interest in the work of philosophers Ernst Cassirer and Ludwig Wittgenstein, and register that he understood his life’s practice—within and beyond art—as centered on research into the “structure of experience.”
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