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Sculptor:
Armajani, Siah 1939-2020  Search this
Medium:
Painted balsa wood
Type:
Sculptures-Model
Sculptures
Owner/Location:
Max Protech Gallery New York New York
Date:
1981
Notes:
University of Pennsylvania, Institute of Contemporary Art, 1985, "Siah Armajani."
(Above coatracks:)Beauty must come back to the useful arts, and the distinction/between the fine and the useful arts be forgotten. If history were/truly told, if life were nobly spent, it would be no longer easy or/possible to distiguish the one from the other. Beauty will not/come at the call of a legislature, nor will it repeat in England or/America its history in Greece. It will come, as always, unannounced,/and spring up between the feet of brave and earnest men. It is in/vain that we look for genius to reiterate its miracles in the old/arts; it is its instinct to find beauty and holiness in new and/necessary facts, in the field and road-side, in the shop and mill./Ralph Waldo Emerson/Essays and Journals
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Summary:
"Three steps [lead] to four separate offices, each containing a desk, bench, coatrack, and bare forty-watt light bulb. In front of offices are long reading tables and benches, a wall with coatracks surmounted by a text, an inaccessible low fenced in area, and screens with glass panes. The colors were brown, grey, and green..."
Topic:
Object--Furniture--Bench  Search this
Object--Furniture--Desk  Search this
Object--Furniture--Clothing Rack  Search this
Occupation--Service  Search this
Control number:
IAS 87610025
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_293512