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Title
Car
Crash
.
Alternative Title
The
Car
Crash
(Happening)
Creator
Dine, Jim (American painter, sculptor, and printmaker, born 1935)
Date
1960
Cultural Context
American
North American
Style/Period
Pop (fine arts styles)
Modern (styles and periods)
Modernist
Theme
Performance art
Happenings
Body art
Performances (entertainment events)
Accidents
Automobiles
Deaths
Writing (processes)
Acting
Figurative art
Figures (representations)
Front views
Three-quarter views
Oblique views
Performance artists
Artists
Men (male humans)
Spectators (event observers)
Audiences
Sitting
Standing
Costumes (character dress)
Costume (mode of fashion)
Suits (main garments)
Neckties
Neckwear
Eyeglasses
Spectacles
Subject
Performance art
Performances
Performances & portrayals
Accidents
Automobiles
Death
Writing
Artists
Men
Spectators
Audiences
Sitting
Standing
Costumes
Clothing & dress
Suits (Clothing)
Neckties
Neckwear
Eyeglasses
Description
"In a
darkened
room
,
Dine
,
acting
the
part
of
'car'
in a
silver-sprayed
cap
and
raincoat
,
swerved
to
avoid
'hits'
from the
raking
'headlights'
attached
to
fellow
performers
. The
lights
went
on and
off
amid
clatterings
and
amplified
collision
noises
,
while
a
girl
on a
stepladder
recited
disjointed
phrases
.
Dine
later
unrolled
paper
towels
,
emblazoned
with the
word
'help'
, from a
washing-machine
wringer
,
distributing
them
among
the
audience.
"
(Caption
,
p.104)
; ""
'Happenings'
therefore
took
the
form
of
complex
sensory
environments
,
bordering
on
theatre
in
terms
of
vestigial
narrative
content
and the
use
of
'props'
, but
soliciting
spectator
participation
.
Jim
Dine's
Car
Crash
, a
response
to a
spate
of
car
accidents
in
which
friends
had
died
,
reactivated
trauma
via
a
barrage
of
poetically
allusive
actions
,
images
, and
sounds.
"
(Excerpt
,
pp.104-105)
People Pictured
Dine, Jim, 1935-
Work Type
Performance art
Happenings
Body art
Source
Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.104, fig.50)
Rights
Photo Robert R. McElroy, New York.
Digital Publisher
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format
image/jpeg
Digital File Name
VRC
827-14.jpg
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