Fountain
1917 (original lost)
Readymade: Porcelain urinal
Height: 60 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art
The Richard Mutt Case, Beatrice Wood, H.P. Roche and/or Marcel Duchamp [The Blind Man 2 (May 1917)].
They say any artist paying six dollars may exhibit.
Mr. Richard Mutt sent in a fountain, Without discussion this article disappeared and was never exhibited.
What were the grounds for refusing Mr. Mutt's fountain:-
1. Some contend it was immoral, vulgar.
2. Others, it was plagiarism, a plain piece of plumbing.
Now Mr. Mutt's fountain is not immoral, that is absurd, no more than a bath tub is immoral. It is a fixture that you see every day in plumbers' show windows.
Whether Mr. Mutt with his own hands made the fountain or not has no importance. He CHOSE it. He took an ordinary article of life, placed it so that its useful significance disappeared under new title and point of view-created a new thought for that object.
As for plumbing, that is absurd. The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.
Man Ray
The Gift
1921
Bicycle Wheel
1913 (original lost)
Readymade
Bull
1943
Canyon, 1959
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Sky Cathedral, 1958
wood, painted black, 115 x 135 x 20
George B. and Jenny R. Mathews Fund, 1970
Capri Battery
(Edition of 200)
3" by 4 3/8" by 2 3/8"
light bulb, plug socket, lemon/
wooden box
1985
Robert Smithson
Spiral Jetty
(Great Salt Lake, 1969-70)
Spiral Jetty
(Great Salt Lake, 1969-70)
Jeff Koons
Three-Ball 50/50 Tank
80s
Inventory # 355, 2001
Galerie Naechst St. Stephan
2003
Metal file cabinet base, plywood, acrylic yarn, plastic basket, yellow plastic
bowls, pink plastic tub
27 x 17.5 x 24 in
68.6 x 44.5 x 61 cm
Concert for Anarchy
1990
A grand piano is suspended upside down from the ceiling by heavy wires attached to its legs. It hangs solidly yet precariously in mid-air, out of reach of a performer, high above the gallery floor.
A mechanism within the piano is timed to go off every two to three minutes, thrusting the keys out of the keyboard in a cacophonous shudder. At the same time, the piano's lid falls open to reveal the instrument's harp-like interior, the strings reverberating at random. This unexpected, violent act is followed between one and two minutes later by a retraction as the lid closes and the keys slide back into place, tunelessly creaking as they go. Over time, the piano repeats the cycle...
River of the Moon: Room of Lovers, is comprised of violins, motors and a bed. It was photographed in the Hotel Peninsular, Barcelona in 1992.
Pae White
1990s
Jason Rhoades
2000s
Untitled (Chandelier)
2004
Glass, wire, neon, wood, plexiglass, fabric, plastic
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Untitled
1991. Multicolored candies, individually wrapped in cellophane
Extended loan from the Howard and Donna Stone Collection, 1.1999
Combining forms of Minimal art with strategies of Conceptual art, Felix Gonzalez-Torres employs materials as disparate as stacks of paper, strings of light, piles of candy, and lines of text, believing that "meaning is created once something can be related to personal experience." Many of his works address themes of loss and renewal. Untitled (A Corner of Baci) is composed of a pile of wrapped chocolates in the corner of a gallery, from which anyone is welcome to take a piece.
Untitled (A Corner of Baci), 1990
Baci chocolates individually wrapped in silver foil (endless supply)
Dimensions vary with installation; ideal weight: 42 pounds
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
