1995.315: Telephone T--R [mirrored R]
MultiplesTwo tin cans standing upright next to each other with small wires looping in between them. The wires meet at an orange flat square. One of the cans has a red cross painted on it.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1995.315
- People
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Joseph Beuys, German (Krefeld, Germany 1921 - 1986 Düsseldorf, Germany)
Published by Edition Schellmann
- Title
- Telephone T--R [mirrored R]
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: Telefon S--E [mirrored E]
- Classification
- Multiples
- Work Type
- object, multiple
- Date
- 1974
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/219149
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Two tin cans, twine, label, brown oil paint ("Browncross")
- Dimensions
- 11.8 x 20.2 x 10.1 cm (4 5/8 x 7 15/16 x 4 in.)
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Edition
- 1 / 24 (approx. 12 produced)
- Standard Reference Number
- Schellmann 136, p. 152-153
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, The Willy and Charlotte Reber Collection, Louise Haskell Daly Fund
- Copyright
- © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
- Accession Year
- 1995
- Object Number
- 1995.315
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Publication History
- Victoria Bunting, "Fat, Sulphur, Chocolate, and Blood: Storage Preservation and a Condition Survey for a Large Collection of Works by Joseph Beuys" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1996), Unpublished, passim
- Peter Nisbet and Joseph Koerner, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, ed. Peter Nisbet, Harvard University Art Museums and Scala Publishers Ltd. (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 2007), p. 242, fig. 1
Exhibition History
- Another View of Joseph Beuys: Multiples from New England Collections, David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence, 01/28/2006 - 03/08/2006
- Multiple Strategies: Beuys, Maciunas, Fluxus, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/24/2007 - 06/10/2007
- 32Q: 1100, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/13/2016 - 04/07/2017
- Wolf Vostell: Dé-coll/age Is Your Life, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/20/2024 - 05/05/2024
Verification Level
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