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''Water Yam'' is an artist's book〔'As a book, Water Yam has a very open structure....' The Century of Artist's Books, Drucker, Granary 2004, p311〕 by the American artist George Brecht. Originally published in Germany, June 1963〔Fluxus Codex, Hendricks, Abrams 1989, p216〕 in a box designed by George Maciunas and typeset by Tomas Schmit, it has been re-published in various countries several times since. It is now considered one of the most influential artworks released by Fluxus,〔(Dada and Radical Art Online )〕 the internationalist avant-garde art movement active predominantly in the 1960s and '70s. The box, sometimes referred to as a ''Fluxbox'' or ''Fluxkit'', contains a large number of small printed cards, containing instructions known as ''event-scores'', or ''fluxscores''. Typically open-ended, these scores, whether performed in public, private or left to the imagination, leave a lot of space for chance and indeterminancy, forcing a large degree of interpretation upon the performers and audience.
The work is considered an important precursor to conceptual art. ==The scores== Early editions of ''Water Yam'' collected around 70 event-scores together, created over a four-year period from 1959 to 1963. Later editions would add extra events (up to about 100), as well as a small flick book ''Nut Bone. A Yamfest Movie'', and white-on-black invitations to contact Brecht via a New York PO Box and arrange 'deliveries and relocations'. Many of the scores had been used in mail art events between 1961 and '63, occasionally hand-written, typed or hectographed, more usually typeset; often signed neatly at the bottom of the card. When Maciunas collected the scores together the typeset style was kept, but the signatures were removed. The reliance on bullet points (•) separating the performances from their title was a feature that remained consistent throughout the versions. The cards are all different sizes. The scores divide roughly into three sections; the earliest ones, 1959–62, describe events intended to be performed (such as ''Solo for Violin, Viola, Cello or Contrabass'' • Polish, July 1962); a second group of scores from '62-63 tend towards describing the temporary creation of assemblages; (such as ''Chair Event'' • on a white chair a grater, tape measure, alphabet, flag, black and spectral colours, April 1962). The third group, also 1962-63, are more personal and abstract; (such as ''Thursday'' • Thursday, March 1963). When originally published, Maciunas decided to emphasize 14 of the more musical scores (such as the famous ''Drip Music''; A source of dripping water and an empty vessel are arranged so that the water falls into the vessel, January 1962) by printing them on orange cards, whilst the rest (such as ''Keyhole'' •Through either side) were printed on Brecht's more usual plain white card. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Water Yam (artist's book)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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