scripted / Ann Hamilton
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1999/2.15
- Title
- scripted
- Artist
- Ann Hamilton
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- born 1956
- Medium and Support
- gold thimble, silver thimble, horsehair, wood and glass
- Object Creation Date
- 1997
- 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)
- Style/Group/Movement
- conceptual
- Inscription
- The gold thimble resting in the left part of the glass wooden box is inscribed (with a laser cutting device) with a poem by Susan Stewart.
- We needed fire to make
- the tongs and tongs to hold
- us from the flame; we needed
- ash to clean the cloth
- and cloth to clean the ash's
- stain; we needed stars
- to find our way, to make
- the light that blurred the stars;
- we needed death to mark
- an end, and end that time
- in time could mend.
- Born in love, the consequence--
- born of love, the need.
- Tell me, ravaged singer,
- how the cinder bears the seed.
- Dimensions
- 8.5 cm x 85.1 cm x 19 cm (3 3/8 in. x 33 1/2 in. x 7 1/2 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Mixed Media
- Primary Object Type
- assemblage
- Physical Description
- A long wooden box divided into two compartments, one small and one large. The small compartment contains an intricately worked gold thimble inscribed with a poem. The long compartment contains a silver thimble in which horse hairs have been threaded. The tuft of horse hair runs the length of the long compartment.
- Subject Matter
- Scripts of love and romance. The failure of language to communicate clearly. Fairy tale fantasies of children.
- Primary Keywords
- assemblages (sculpture)
- boxes (containers)
- conceptual
- hair
- horses
- metalworking
- poems
- scripts (writing)
- Secondary Keywords
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- animals and creatures
- components
- components and systems
- components by specific context
- constructions (sculpture)
- containers
- containers by form
- descriptors
- document genres
- document genres by form
- document genres for literary works
- hair and hair components
- information form components
- information forms
- international post-1945 styles and movements
- keratinous material
- mammals
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- metalworking and metalworking processes and techniques
- objects we use
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- post-1945 fine arts styles and movements
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1596 x 1027
- File Size
- 218 KB
- Record
- 1999/2.15
- Link to this Item
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"scripted; Ann Hamilton." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1999-sl-2.15/1999_2_15.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.
