From Line to Point to No Point / Richard Tuttle
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 2008/2.261
- Title
- From Line to Point to No Point
- Artist
- Richard Tuttle
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- Born 1941
- Medium and Support
- graphite on paper
- Object Creation Date
- 1973
- Object Creation Place
- North America
- American
- Creation Place 1
- North America
- Creation Place 2
- American
- Style/Group/Movement
- conceptual art
- Period
- Modern and contemporary
- Dimensions
- 35.4 cm x 28 cm (13 15/16 in. x 11 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Drawing
- Primary Object Type
- abstract
- Physical Description
- Pencil drawing of one continuous line tracing the movement of the artist’s hand. Image is centered and small relative to the sheet. Starts with a diagonal line drawn right to left, and down at an angle.
- Subject Matter
- Although most of Tuttle’s prolific artistic output since he began his career in the 1960s has taken the form of three-dimensional objects, he commonly refers to his work as drawing rather than sculpture, emphasizing the diminutive scale and idea-based nature of his practice. He subverts the conventions of modernist sculptural practice (defined by grand heroic gestures, monumental scale, and the ‘macho’ materials of steel, marble, and bronze) and instead creates small, eccentrically playful objects in decidedly humble, even ‘pathetic’ materials such as paper, rope, string, cloth, wire, twigs, cardboard, bubble wrap, nails, Styrofoam, and plywood. Influences on his work include calligraphy (he has a strong interest in the intrinsic power of line), poetry, and language. (http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/tuttle/index.html, accessed 1 Feb 2010)
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 2121 x 2655
- File Size
- 557 KB
- Record
- 2008/2.261
- Link to this Item
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"From Line to Point to No Point; Richard Tuttle." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2008-sl-2.261/2008_2_261.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 18, 2024.
