Monument to the Lycée Chases / Christian Boltanski
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 2006/1.154
- Title
- Monument to the Lycée Chases
- Artist
- Christian Boltanski
- Artist Nationality
- French
- Artist Life Dates
- Born 1944
- Object Creation Date
- 1989
- Object Creation Place
- Europe (continent)
- France (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- Europe (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- France (nation)
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase made possible by the W. Hawkins Ferry Fund and anonymous individual benefactors
- Dimensions
- 300 cm x 200 cm (118 1/8 in. x 78 3/4 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Mixed Media
- Primary Object Type
- assemblage
- Secondary Object Classification
- Mixed Media
- Secondary Object Type
- found object
- Physical Description
- Three black and white photographs of young people's faces are vertically arranged. Above each and below the center image are smaller versions of similar portrait photographs. Four of these smaller photos are also arranged in the line of the large photographs, one on each end, and two separating the larger pictues. All the photos are surrounded by an arrangement of light bulbs, which are connected by a network of electrical cables that snake along the walls and over the photos.
- Subject Matter
- The subject of Boltanski's mixed media piece is the Holocaust and Holocaust memory. The photographs in the piece are enlargements from a 1931 graduating class picture from a Jewish high school in Vienna, the Lycée Chases. The piece is both a memorial to the victims and an engagement with the fate of the memory of the dead.
- Primary Keywords
- assemblages (sculpture)
- deaths
- gelatin silver prints
- lamps (lighting device components)
- light art
- memory
- mortality
- vienna (inhabited place)
- youth
- Secondary Keywords
- associated concepts
- austria (nation)
- biological concepts
- components
- components and systems
- components by specific context
- constructions (sculpture)
- europe (continent)
- events
- furnishings components
- geographic and political locations
- lighting device components
- objects we use
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by age group
- personal life events
- photographic prints
- photographic prints by process
- photographs
- photographs by form
- positives
- psychological concepts
- scientific concepts
- sculpture
- sculpture by technique
- social science concepts
- vienna state (state)
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 2913 x 2250
- File Size
- 593 KB
- Record
- 2006/1.154
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2006-sl-1.154/2006_1.154.jpg
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"Monument to the Lycée Chases; Christian Boltanski." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2006-sl-1.154/2006_1.154.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 16, 2024.
