Monument to V. Tatlin
Dan Flavin, American, 1933 - 1996
Geography:
Made in United States, North and Central America
Date:
1966Medium:
Fluorescent lightsDimensions:
12 feet 3 inches × 27 3/4 inches × 5 inches (373.4 × 70.5 × 12.7 cm)Copyright:
© 2016 Stephen Flavin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New YorkCuratorial Department:
Contemporary ArtObject Location:
1979-75-1Credit Line:
Purchased with a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and with funds contributed by private donors, 1979
Made in United States, North and Central America
Date:
1966Medium:
Fluorescent lightsDimensions:
12 feet 3 inches × 27 3/4 inches × 5 inches (373.4 × 70.5 × 12.7 cm)Copyright:
© 2016 Stephen Flavin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New YorkCuratorial Department:
Contemporary ArtObject Location:
Currently not on view
Accession Number:1979-75-1Credit Line:
Purchased with a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and with funds contributed by private donors, 1979
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american [x] contemporary art [x] dan flavin [x] fluorescent light [x] minimalism [x] rejection of ab ex principles [x] repetition [x] twentieth century [x] vladimir tatlin [x]Removed from its typical context and function, the standard fluorescent light tube became a rich resource in Dan Flavin's work. This piece, one of his "Monuments to Tatlin" created between 1964 and 1982, is named for the Russian Constructivist artist Vladimir Tatlin (1885-1953). Tatlin's own (never-realized) Monument to the Third International (1919) was to be a spiraling structure of rotating glass rooms suspended in an open iron framework, designed in celebration of the Russian revolution and the modern technological age. In Monument to V. Tatlin, Flavin, who described his sculptures as "anti-monuments," expresses his ambivalence toward Tatlin's utopian ideals while creating his own equally radical work of pure abstraction.