Bone / Michele Oka Doner
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1981/2.97
- Title
- Bone
- Artist
- Michele Oka Doner
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- Born 1945
- Medium and Support
- stoneware
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1978
- Object Creation Place
- North and Central America (continent)
- United States (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- North and Central America (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Michele Oka and Frederick Doner
- Dimensions
- 46 cm x 12.5 cm x 6 cm (18 1/8 in. x 4 15/16 in. x 2 3/8 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Ceramic
- Physical Description
- Realistic bone that looks like a femur. The texture and the glazing give it an aged look. The stoneware is porous like a bone.
- Subject Matter
- Art that tries to fascinate in the way objects from natural history do, like fossils, shells, and old bones. The esthetics of organic line and form.
- Secondary Keywords
- artistic concepts
- associated concepts
- biological concepts
- ceramics
- concepts in the arts
- descriptors
- forms of expression
- modern and contemporary art
- object genres
- object genres by form
- object genres by material
- people and culture
- philosophical concepts
- physical sciences concepts
- physics concepts
- pottery (object genre)
- scientific concepts
- Rights
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1360 x 496
- File Size
- 74 KB
- Record
- 1981/2.97
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1981-sl-2.97/1981_2.97.jpg
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"Bone; Michele Oka Doner." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1981-sl-2.97/1981_2.97.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.
