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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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