Word: arman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...goatee and mustache onto a reproduction of the Mono Lisa, Marcel Duchamp made it difficult for anyone looking at the lady thereafter to overlook either the pompous reverence with which she is surrounded or Leonardo's decidedly ambivalent attitude toward women. More recently, Miro, Magritte, Johns, Rauschenberg, Lichtenstein, Arman, Bruce Nauman and Walter de Maria have in various ways dealt memorably with the subject...
...light bulbs lined up inside, four of them shot to bits and bullet holes piercing the case on either side of them. The piece seems to ask the question "When?" as the eye canvasses the damage already done and the mind awaits the next bullet from a ghostly sniper. Arman's smashed guitar glued to a board-a requiem for Harlequin-is an effective device to make death real...
...popped back into fashion with hairy sculptures tattooed with more images, inscriptions and plain gunk than any statue in the park. Her Sappho, lounging beneath a tree fruited with a skull, slouches like an Eve who has waited in vain for Adam a thousand years. Or France's Arman, 37. He accumulates things like a surplus-parts dealer and freezes them in polyester. His transparent collages in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art's current assemblage show, contain heaps of real oil gauges, fan blades, or teapots. Very cool and a bit Dada, Arman's accumulations...