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- Title
- Bone
- Artist
- Michele Oka Doner
- 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.
- Artist Life Dates
- Born 1945
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1978
- Accession Number
- 1981/2.97
- Medium and Support
- stoneware
- relevance
- rank 11.80573
- Primary Keywords
- bones (objects)
- mortality
- nature
- realism
- stoneware
- time
- 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 10.56842
- Primary Keywords
- assemblages (sculpture)
- deaths
- gelatin silver prints
- lamps (lighting device components)
- light art
- memory
- mortality
- vienna (inhabited place)
- youth
- Title
- Untitled (March 5th) #2
- Artist
- Felix Gonzalez-Torres
- Physical Description
- Two forty-watt light bulbs in simple porcelain light sockets hang together by their extension cords from a nail on the wall.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1957-1996
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1991
- Accession Number
- 1999/2.17
- Medium and Support
- 40-watt light bulbs, extension cords, porcelain light sockets
- relevance
- rank 10.46868
- Primary Keywords
- abstraction
- aids
- conceptual
- deaths
- installations (sculpture)
- lamps (lighting device components)
- light art
- lovers
- memory
- minimal
- mortality
- ready-mades
- time
- Title
- Three Gold Rings, from Ringed Series
- Artist
- Todd Hoyer
- Physical Description
- A bulbous vessel with narrow mouth and base. The wood is burned and cracked and circled by three gold bands, two of which overlap.
- burnt wood vessel with gold
- Artist Life Dates
- b. 1952
- Century
- late 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1991
- Accession Number
- 2002/2.145
- Medium and Support
- eucalyptus, imitation gold leaf
- relevance
- rank 10.23235
- Primary Keywords
- burning
- deaths
- families
- memory
- mortality
- pyrography
- vessels
- wood (plant material)
- woodworking
- woodworking and woodworking processes and techniques