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Box 196

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Contains 8 Results:

Sweat & Saliva Series, 2001

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: CC-37208-39052
Scope and Contents

Wescher wrote alternating recipes and romantic phrases on a place setting of off-white dishes. For example, the bowl combines a recipe for tomato basil soup with "2 warm bodies" and "2 sets free roaming hands." The dessert dish calls for "express cream, ricotta cheese" and "2 pairs caressing hands," and "2 pairs soft lips." The appetizer plate reads, "spicy grilled shrimp, 2 eyes with lashes painted." The salad plate is for strawberry-avocado salad with "2 pairs soft lips 1/4 cup olive oil, 2 wet tongues." The main course, on a dinner plate, is "chicken and asparagus, black bean enchiladas, 2 warm bodies." The texts were written in a circular pattern starting from the outside edge to the center. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Interruption, 1981

 Item — Box 196: [Barcode: 31858072459666]

[Matérial d'une super-linguistique], 1983

 Item — Box 196: [Barcode: 31858072459666]
Scope and Contents

Most of hte plate is covered in glyphs with three instances of text: "matérial d'une super-linguistique," "Fondement alimentaire d'une sémantique," and a dedication, "à Mady et François Letaillieur."

Dates: 1983

[Je n'ai nas faim] , 2000

 Item — Box 196: [Barcode: 31858072459666]

O. Freundlich, circa 1970

 Item — Box 196: [Barcode: 31858072459666]

[Malevich saucer, MOMA reproduction], 1923

 Item — Box 196: [Barcode: 31858072459666]
Scope and Contents

The saucer is a reproduction of a saucer decorated with a Suprematist design after Malevich and manufactured by the Petrograd Porcelain Factory, 1923. Made for the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Dates: 1923

[Suetin tea set, MOMA reproduction], 1923

 Item — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

The set is a reproduction of a two saucers and a teapot decorated with a Suprematist design after Suetin and manufactured by the Petrograd Porcelain Factory, 1923. Made for the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Dates: 1923

L.H.O.O.Q., 2005

 Item — Box 196: [Barcode: 31858072459666]
Identifier: CC-50529-71601
Scope and Contents

The title of this piece is from Duchamps' version of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa who has been adorned with a comical moustache and goatee thus deserving its alternate title Joconde aux Moustaches. The title is essentially a phonetic game. As Duchamp himself noted in a 1966 interview, "I really like this kind of game, even in any language, some astonishing things happen." When read quickly in French, the title L.H.O.O.Q. sounds like a sentence translating to "She has a hot ass." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005