In Limbo.
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Title |
In Limbo. |
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Creator |
Arman (French sculptor and painter, 1928-2005) |
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Date |
1962 |
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Cultural Context |
French
European
Western European |
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Style/Period |
New Realist (post-1945 style) |
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Subject |
Dolls
Toys
Arms (Anatomy)
Legs
Heads (Anatomy)
Body parts
Boxes
Surplus commodities
Commercialism
Capitalism
Economics
Industry
Commerce |
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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) |
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Material |
Broken dolls in wood and glass box
Found objects
Wood (plant material)
Glass (material)
Dolls
Boxes |
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Measurements |
101.6 x 30.5 cm |
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Technique |
Sculpting |
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Work Type |
Sculpture |
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Repository |
Galerie Beaubourg (Paris, France) |
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Source |
Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.77, fig.38) |
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Rights |
Photograph reproduced in Hopkins courtesy: Galerie Beauborg, Paris. © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2000. |
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Digital Publisher |
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center |
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Format |
image/jpeg |
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Digital File Name |
VRC 827-02.jpg |
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