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Archivision Base to Module 13
LocalCollection
Archivision Base to Module 13
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Preferred Title:
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Architect's Handkerchief
Work_PrefTitle
Architect's Handkerchief
Preferred Title
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Image View:
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General view
Image_Title
General view
Image View
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Creator:
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Claes Oldenburg (American sculptor, born 1929); Coosje van Bruggen (American sculptor, born 1942)
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Claes Oldenburg (American sculptor, born 1929); Coosje van Bruggen (American sculptor, born 1942)
Creator
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Location:
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repository: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art (Kansas City, Missouri, United States) 2006.17
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repository: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art (Kansas City, Missouri, United States) 2006.17
Location
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Date:
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1999 (creation)
Work_DateDisplay
1999 (creation)
Date
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Cultural Context:
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American
Work_Culture
American
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Style Period:
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Pop; Twentieth century
Work_StylePeriodDisp lay
Pop; Twentieth century
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Work Type 1:
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sculpture (visual work)
Work_Worktype1
sculpture (visual work)
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Classification:
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sculpture
Work_Classification
sculpture
Classification
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Material:
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polyester gel-coat and polyurethane clear-coat on fiber reinforced polymers
Work_MaterialDisplay
polyester gel-coat and polyurethane clear-coat on fiber reinforced polymers
Material
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Technique:
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construction (assembling); painting and painting techniques
Work_Technique
construction (assembling); painting and painting techniques
Technique
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Measurements:
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149 x 89 x 144.5 in (length)
Work_MeasurementDisp lay
149 x 89 x 144.5 in (length)
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Subjects:
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contemporary (1960 to present)
Work_Image_SubjectDi splay
contemporary (1960 to present)
Subjects
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Description:
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[From a Metropolitan exhibit of the piece]...the billowing white sail of Architect's Handkerchief (1999), of fiber-reinforced plastic painted with polyester gelcoat, 12 feet high and wide, 7 feet deep, seems defiantly unrecognizable in the context of this installation, given the relative absence of the pocket square from the haberdashery of contemporary culture. While it springs exuberantly from an otherwise featureless footing like a flower from a pot, the sculpture finds its source in a photograph by Peter Blake, a tightly framed image of the signature handkerchief of Mies van der Rohe, published for ease of reference in the Metropolitan's exhibition brochure. Greatly enlarged, the convolutions of white seemed to waft up and westward toward the clouds of a buttermilk sky. However Miesian the source, the rippling forms more immediately recall the familiar billowing folds designed by Oldenburg and van Bruggen's close friend and sometime collaborator, Frank O. Gehry. (Source: Leffingwell, Edward; All sorts of
Work_Description_Sou rce
[From a Metropolitan exhibit of the piece]...the billowing white sail of Architect's Handkerchief (1999), of fiber-reinforced plastic painted with polyester gelcoat, 12 feet high and wide, 7 feet deep, seems defiantly unrecognizable in the context of this installation, given the relative absence of the pocket square from the haberdashery of contemporary culture. While it springs exuberantly from an otherwise featureless footing like a flower from a pot, the sculpture finds its source in a photograph by Peter Blake, a tightly framed image of the signature handkerchief of Mies van der Rohe, published for ease of reference in the Metropolitan's exhibition brochure. Greatly enlarged, the convolutions of white seemed to waft up and westward toward the clouds of a buttermilk sky. However Miesian the source, the rippling forms more immediately recall the familiar billowing folds designed by Oldenburg and van Bruggen's close friend and sometime collaborator, Frank O. Gehry. (Source: Leffingwell, Edward; All sorts of
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Collection:
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Archivision Addition Module Three
LocalCollection
Archivision Addition Module Three
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Identifier:
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6A1-BCJ-AH-A1
Image_OriginalVendor ID
6A1-BCJ-AH-A1
Identifier
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Image_Rights
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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