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Title
Field: detail of mass of figures
Creator
Gormley, Antony (English sculptor and painter, born 1950)
Contributor
InSITE92
Date Created and/or Issued
1992
Contributing Institution
UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
Collection
inSite Archive: Selections
Rights Information
Unknown
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Description
Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design
Sculpture and Installations
"From the beginning I was trying to make something as direct as possible with clay: the earth. The 200,000 body-surrogates completely occupy the space in which they are installed, taking the form of the building and excluding us, but allowing visual access. I gave these instructions to the makers: Take a hand-size ball of clay, form it between the hands, into a body surrogate as quickly as possible. Place it at arm's length in front of you and give it eyes." -- Anthony Gormley
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)
This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 05, Item 130)
[Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Type
image
Format
Clay
Form/Genre
sculpture (visual work)
installations (visual works)
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Eyes (motifs)
Repetition (Aesthetics)
Population
Crowds
Sculpture (visual work)
Installations (visual works)
Mexican-American border region
InSITE92
Place
Mexican-American border region

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