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Title
Colored
Artist
Betye Saar
Physical Description
Assemblage of found objects: salvaged wood frame, four portrait photographs of African American females, nine thread samples, and one hand mirror hanging on a decorative brass hook to the viewer's right of the frame.
Artist Life Dates
born 1926
Century
21st century
Object Creation Date
2002
Accession Number
2003/1.406
Medium and Support
mixed media assemblage with hand mirror
relevance
rank 17.64371
Primary Keywords
african american
assemblage (sculpture technique)
assemblages (sculpture)
black-and-white photographs
found objects
photographs
portrait photography
vintage prints
women
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Title
What We All Lack (Ce qui manque à nous tous)
Artist
Man Ray
Physical Description
A clear glass bubble rests on the bowl of a plain white clay pipe. Along the stem of the pipe are the words, "Ce que [sic] manque à nous tous."
Artist Life Dates
1890 - 1976
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1962
Accession Number
1997/1.129
Medium and Support
blown glass, clay, and wood
relevance
rank 16.58488
Primary Keywords
assemblages (sculpture)
books
bubbles
conceptual
pipe
pipes (smoking equipment)
surrealism
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Title
scripted
Artist
Ann Hamilton
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.
Artist Life Dates
born 1956
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1997
Accession Number
1999/2.15
Medium and Support
gold thimble, silver thimble, horsehair, wood and glass
relevance
rank 16.41558
Primary Keywords
assemblages (sculpture)
boxes (containers)
conceptual
hair
horses
metalworking
poems
scripts (writing)
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Title
Monument to the Lycée Chases
Artist
Christian Boltanski
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.
Artist Life Dates
Born 1944
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1989
Accession Number
2006/1.154
Medium and Support
gelatin silver prints, biscuit tins, electric cables, and sixty-eight lightbulbs
relevance
rank 15.32075
Primary Keywords
assemblages (sculpture)
deaths
gelatin silver prints
lamps (lighting device components)
light art
memory
mortality
vienna (inhabited place)
youth
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