sculpture
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The Fountain by Marcel Duchamp in 1917
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“Art for the most part, is about concentration, solitude and determination. It’s really not about other people’s needs and assumptions. I’m not interested in the notion that art serves something. Art is useless, not useful.”
— Richard Serra
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“Art for the most part, is about concentration, solitude and determination. It’s really not about other people’s needs and assumptions. I’m not interested in the notion that art serves something. Art is useless, not useful.”
Richard Serra
(b. 1938, San Francisco)
Strike: To Roberta and Rudy
1969–71
Hot-rolled steel
8 ft 1 in x 24 ft x 1 ½ in
Guggenheim Museum, New York
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“People, buying my stuff, can take it wherever they go and can rebuild it if they choose. If they keep it in their heads, that’s fine too. They don’t have to buy it to have it – they can just have it by knowing it.”
Lawrence Weiner
PUSH AS IF & LEFT AS IS
2012
language and the materials referred to.
Dimensions variable.
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“The most interesting characteristic of the cube is that it is relatively uninteresting. Compared to other three-dimensional forms, the cube lacks the expressive force of the sphere, the dynamic quality of the pyramid, or the graceful complexity of the human figure. But it is what it is — a square in three dimensions — and that alone is enough.”
Sol LeWitt
Cube Without a Cube
Painted wood multiple, contained in the original wooden box.
1996
7 7/8 x 7 7/8 x 7 7/8 in.
Sold $17,780
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Anatomical Venus in the University of Pavia museum.