Installation, L'Attico Gallery, Rome. Detail of wall drawing in pencil. Draughtsmen: Climbo, Piccari, Battista, Pranovi. "In the early 1960s LeWitt had largely devoted himself to producing modular open cube structures made from wood. His 'wall...
Photographs; Montages; Promotional materials; Sales catalogs; Publicity; Publicity photographs; Advertisements; Advertising; Mail-order businesses; Business enterprises; Business & finance; Commerce; Art objects; Women; Hairstyles; Sitting;...
Originally arranged for photograph and reassembled 1984 by Jon Hendricks as installation, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas; "This is an installation which closely follows a promotional photographic montage for de Ridder's distribution...
Photograph of exhibition installation, ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts), London, September-October 1953; "In this early Independent Group exhibition photographs of varying sizes were attached to the gallery walls. Others were suspended by...
"Broodthaer's Musée d'Arte Moderne assumed various forms. The 'Department of Eagles', which contained the exhibits pictured here, had further permutations in other venues. In a Düsseldorf showing of 1970 the museum's 'nineteenth-century'...
Sculpture; Allusions; Chemistry; Science; Interpersonal relations; Social science; Sociology; Utopias
"The work consisted of a triangular gauze filter stretched across a corner into which lumps of fat had been packed. Apart from alluding to physical metamorphoses brought about via osmosis, processes of refinement and purification were evoked....
Installation of three costumes of wax-print cotton textiles tailored by Sian Lewis; "This work by Shonibare consists of three clothed mannequins standing on a low platform. Their stiff postures and high Victorian dresses, complete with...
Sculpture; Mixed media; Puns (Visual works); Sex; Couples; Relations between the sexes; Human body; Body parts; Anatomy; Genitals; Pails; Containers; Fruit; Melons; Food; Citrus fruit; Oranges; Cucumbers; Vegetables
"Lucas grew up in a working-class environment in East London and uses its idioms in her work. To some extent she has also borrowed from the American art that she saw in the late 1980s in London's Saatchi Gallery. Her 'grungy' abject imagery...
Five white canvases with pupae, steel shelves with potted flowers, bowls of sugar-water solution, table, radiators, humidifiers, and live butterflies; "There was a lyrical quality to Hirst's use of butterflies' lifecycles, both in the 1991...
"The color red, connotative of intense passion, predominated in the two cramped spaces forming this installation. One important theme here was regressive psychological fantasy. But there was also a sense that ancient knowledge was being...
"The color red, connotative of intense passion, predominated in the two cramped spaces forming this installation. One important theme here was regressive psychological fantasy. But there was also a sense that ancient knowledge was being...
Sculpture; Mixed media; Women; Women's rights; Feminism; Feminists; Sexism; Stereotyping; Discrimination; Sex; Genitals; Body parts; Human body; Biology; History; Arts & crafts; Dinner parties; Celebrations; Parties; Guests; Dining tables;...
"Each of the ceramic plates adorning the table in this installation was individualized. In this photograph, the Georgia O'Keeffe plate on the right owed something of its original design to her Black Iris paintings of the mid-1920s. The plate...
"Carried out partly to confront the economic interests on which galleries are based, this installation took place over a three-day period. The artist chose horses of various breeds and colors, associating them symbolically with energy and...
Sculpture; Signs (Notices); Language; Electric signs; Electron tubes; Advertisements; Advertising; Slogans; Commercialism; Communication; Communication devices
"Jenny Holzer extended the use of language in art to another dimension by presenting words alone; for the viewer, looking and reading became one and the same act. […] In graduate school at the Rhode Island School of Design in the mid-1970s,...
"While producing works like this, Turrell also embarked on a major project in 1972 which involved purchasing, and subsequently modifying, an extinct volcanic crater located in northern Arizona. This 'Roden Crater' project has connections with...
Sculpture; Mixed media; Men; Young adults; Discrimination; Race discrimination; Racism; Prejudice; Cultural relations; Social classes; Social aspects; Interpersonal relations; Fear
Earth, linen cloth, and wood, and recorded interviews; “ ‘My godson’s experience stimulated this piece. He’s grown up in Greenwich Village and one evening while out with his friends the police swooped down upon them. They were thrown...
