Stopped Bar Series, Two Up / Richard Nonas
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 2008/2.248
- Title
- Stopped Bar Series, Two Up
- Artist
- Richard Nonas
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- Born 1936
- Medium and Support
- wood
- Object Creation Date
- 1974
- Style/Group/Movement
- post-minimalism
- Period
- Modern and contemporary
- Dimensions
- 10.16 cm x 243.84 cm x 10.16 cm (4 in. x 96 in. x 4 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Physical Description
- “BURRILL” 2x4” wood beam resting on two 2x4” cut into squares and placed at either end of the beam; signed on top “Richard Nonas Jan 1974.”
- Subject Matter
- “Nonas’s feel for materials and sense of proportion are the essential qualities of a sculptor in Herbert’s [Vogel] judgment. ‘He can lay down a simple steel bar and when you look at it—looks right’: the ultimate test of a work of art. ‘My work,’ Nonas says, ‘is about placing objects in space, to make a room feel different than it did before…. Actually, to make objects feel like places, I like the massiveness of the steel bars, the sense of weight as they rest on the ground. And I want to point out the possibilities of slightly different perceptions and feelings about space, or ways that spatial perceptions affect our feelings.’” (cited in Bret Waller, Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel exh. cat., University of Michigan Museum of Art)
- Primary Keywords
- construction equipment
- constructions (sculpture)
- environments (sculpture)
- found object sculpture
- installations (sculpture)
- minimal
- sculpture by form
- wood (plant material)
- Secondary Keywords
- descriptors
- equipment
- equipment by process
- international post-1945 styles and movements
- materials
- materials by origin
- objects we use
- people and culture
- plant material
- post-1945 fine arts styles and movements
- sculpture
- sculpture by material
- sculpture by technique
- styles and periods
- styles and periods by region
- tools and equipment
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- wood and wood products
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Record
- 2008/2.248
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2008-sl-2.248/ri_2008_2_248.jpg
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"Stopped Bar Series, Two Up; Richard Nonas." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2008-sl-2.248/ri_2008_2_248.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 25, 2024.
