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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2019.27.1.5
People
Otto Piene, German (Laasphe, Westphalia, Germany 1928 - 2014 Berlin, Germany)
Title
Inserted notes
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Sketchbook: Tobago/Tète de Defense Paris/Bonn Competition/Japan
Classification
Archival Material
Work Type
ephemera
Date
1983
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/376932

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Blue pen on paper
Dimensions
27.9 × 21.6 cm (11 × 8 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: in blue pen: Tète de Defense II-20-'83 // ramp / screen 85²m² / building skim (exhibition / space?) / in-between space <--40m--> / 85 mm high, adjustable theater / technology garden 85²m² / position in the city image / (Expo, Seine, moving / visitors) / spherical theater inside building / 27 m Ø // presentation 7 pp A3 / drawings on plan also A3 // 1 [encircled] // -2-

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Elizabeth Goldring Piene, gift; to the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 2018.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Elizabeth Goldring Piene
Copyright
© Otto Piene Estate
Accession Year
2019
Object Number
2019.27.1.5
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Between pages 1-2

Subjects and Contexts

  • Animating the Page

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