COLLECTION NAME:
Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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ArtArtHiAAH~7~7
Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Image Record ID:
aahi0002370
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aahi0002370
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Work Title (display):
Fireworks Series: Power Fingers
Image Title:
full view
Work Dates (display):
1983
Work Dates type:
creation
Image Date (display):
2008-10-27
Work Creator (display):
Dennis Oppenheim (American, 1938-2011)
Work Creator gender:
male
work_creator_or_agent_gender
male
Work Creator gender
false
Work Creator notes (display):
American conceptual and performance artist. He studied art at California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA (195964) and at Stanford University, Stanford, CA (19645). His early work was Land art and involved large-scale outdoor projects documented by photographs. In Directed SeedingCancelled Crop (1969; see 1974 exh. cat.), he organized the planting of a field of wheat at Finsterwolde in Holland according to a specific pattern and then had a huge cross shape harvested out of the grown crop. He prevented any of the crop from being sold, an act he likened to 'stopping raw pigment from becoming an illusionistic force on canvas' (1974 exh. cat.). In the early 1970s he turned to such performance works as Reading Position for Second Degree Burn (1970; see 1974 exh. cat.), in which he lay in the sun for five hours with a book across his chest so that his skin burned, leaving a silhouette of the book. He saw this as a form of painting. From about 1973 he became increasingly interested in mechanical installations: in Attempt to Raise Hell (1974), for example, he constructed a mannequin that banged its head against a silver bell every 100 seconds. From 1979 he began making what he called 'Factories', which were permanent or temporary machine constructions similar to the works of Jean Tinguely. Final Stroke: Project for a Glass Factory (1980; San Francisco, CA, MOMA) consists of an elaborate metal construction incorporating moving electrical parts and a butane heater. It was accompanied by a narrative describing a mechanomorphic encounter between a man and a woman, thus relating it to Duchamp's Large Glass (191523). The 'Factories' were succeeded by the spectacular 'Fireworks' series of mechanical constructions (19812), which used electric motors and fireworks. He also produced more traditional assemblages in the 1980s using metal fragments and other materials, as in Roots in Cubism, Hearts in the Stars (Forest for Cézanne) (19834; see 1984 exh. cat., p. 59). http://www.groveart… accessed 2008-06-16>
Work Creator UCB affiliation (display):
visiting artist, Visiting Artist Program, 1986
Work Style Period:
20th century
work_styleperiod
20th century
Work Style Period
false
Work Style Period:
Contemporary
work_styleperiod
Contemporary
Work Style Period
false
Work Subject:
machines
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machines
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
body, human
subject
body, human
Work Subject
false
Work Worktype:
sculpture (visual works)
work_type
sculpture (visual works)
Work Worktype
false
Work Category (VRC classification):
sculptures and installations
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sculptures and installations
Work Category (VRC classification)
false
Work Material and Technique (display):
assorted metals and paint
Work Measurements (display):
91 in (H) x 216 in (W) x 31 in (D)
Work Location (Repository or Site) name:
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Work Location (Repository or Site) role:
repository
Work Location (Geographic) name:
San Diego, California
Image Source Reproduction citation:
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. Blurring the Boundaries: Installation Art 1969-1996. Anne Farrell, ed. New York: Distributed Art Publishers, 1997.
image_source_copy_from_print_name
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. Blurring the Boundaries: Installation Art 1969-1996. Anne Farrell, ed. New York: Distributed Art Publishers, 1997.
Image Source Reproduction citation
false
Image Source Reproduction refid:
0-934418-44-6
Image Source Reproduction page number:
187
Image Source Reproduction refid type:
ISBN
Image Rights (display):
© Philipp Scholz Rittermann
Image Rights fair use checklist:
1) use of this image is for education and educational research; 2) access is restricted to University of Colorado and Auraria Higher Education Center communities; 3) the original photographer is credited if known; 4) the image is published; 5) the amount of the work in relation to the whole is needed for education or educational research; 6) the number of derivatives is the minimum required for education or educational research; 7) the image has not been found to be reasonably available for sale; 8) duplication of the image does not violate preexisting contracts.
Work Rights (display):
© Dennis Oppenheim
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Holding Institution:
University of Colorado at Boulder
Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Collection
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