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Larger Image	Larger image may be viewed by UofL faculty, staff, and students only (log-in required using ULink username/password) at: http://echo.louisville.edu/login?url=http://vrc-web.louisville.edu/Jpegs/820/827-02.jpg
Title	In Limbo.
Creator	Arman (French sculptor and painter, 1928-2005)
Date	1962
Cultural Context	French European Western European
Style/Period	New Realist (post-1945 style)
Theme	Sculpture (visual work) Found objects Figurative art Dolls Toys (recreational artifacts) Fragments Heads (representations) Heads (animal or human components) Legs (animal or human components) Arms (animal or human components) Boxes (containers) Containers (receptacles) Mass production Materialism Capitalism Industry (economic concept) Economics
Subject	Sculpture Dolls Toys Arms (Anatomy) Legs Heads (Anatomy) Body parts Boxes Containers Surplus commodities Commercialism Capitalism Economics Industry Commerce
Description	"Whilst implicitly acknowledging the Surrealism of [Joseph] Cornell, Arman possibly evokes [Roland] Barthes's mournful vision of commodified toys as expressed in the latter's book Mythologies (1957). Barthes wrote that in the consumerist era, rather than becoming worn through affection, the mechanical doll disappears 'behind the hernia of a broken spring'." (Caption, p.77); "Representative examples [of the Nouveau Réaliste (New Realist) movement] were Arman's series of Accumulations - boxes filled with identical readymade objects in various states of wear and tear, which responded to issues of overproduction and built-in obsolescence, distilling a poetics of premature aging and flawed uniformity." (Excerpt, pp. 76, 78)
Material	Broken dolls in wood and glass box Found objects Wood (plant material) Glass (material) Dolls Boxes
Measurements	101.6 x 30.5 cm
Technique	Sculpting
Work Type	Sculpture
Repository	Galerie Beaubourg (Paris, France)
Source	Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.77, fig.38)
Rights	Photograph reproduced in Hopkins courtesy: Galerie Beauborg, Paris. © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2000.
Digital Publisher	University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format	image/jpeg
Digital File Name	VRC 827-02.jpg
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