Car Crash.
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Title |
Car Crash. |
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Alternative Title |
The Car Crash (Happening) |
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Creator |
Dine, Jim (American painter, sculptor, and printmaker, born 1935) |
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Date |
1960 |
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Cultural Context |
American
North American |
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Style/Period |
Pop (fine arts styles)
Modern (styles and periods)
Modernist |
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Subject |
Performance art
Performances
Accidents
Automobiles
Death
Writing
Artists
Men
Spectators
Audiences
Costumes |
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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) |
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People Pictured |
Dine, Jim, 1935- |
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Work Type |
Performance art
Happenings
Body art |
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Source |
Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.104, fig.50) |
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Rights |
Photo Robert R. McElroy, New York. |
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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 827-14.jpg |
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