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Title Letter from Alison Knowles to [Oscar] Emmett Williams
Maker Alison Knowles (American, b. 1933)
Date ca. 1963
Type correspondence
Location Getty Research Institute, Jean Brown Papers, 890164, box 55, folder 14

In this letter to Emmett Williams, Alison Knowles describes her experience of performing a series of Fluxus scores, as well as her observations of the audience’s responses, from “unruly and tittering” to quiet and calm. She also describes an early project, called the Scissor Bros. Warehouse Sale (1963), that demonstrates the force and impossibility of “the identical,” for which she, George Brecht, and Robert Watts created “fifty identical paintings all baring, bearing? [sic] the same print in a variety of colors and sizes.”

© Alison Knowles.

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Knowles, Alison. Letter from Alison Knowles to [Oscar] Emmett Williams, ca. 1963. Getty Research Institute, Jean Brown Papers, 890164, box 55, folder 14. In The Scores Project: Experimental Notation in Music, Art, Poetry, and Dance, 1950–1975, ed. Michael Gallope, Natilee Harren, and John Hicks. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2025. https://www.getty.edu/publications/scores/object-index/505/.

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