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Title
Stairway of the Ancients
Creator
MacConnel, Kim (American painter and sculptor, born 1946)
Rittermann, Philipp Scholz (American photographer, 1955 CE-)
Contributor
Installation Gallery
InSITE94
Date Created and/or Issued
1994
Contributing Institution
UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
Collection
inSite Archive: Selections
Rights Information
Unknown
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Description
Sculpture and Installations
"Stairway of the Ancients" is a complex stairway, probably built in the 1920s, leading up to the Casa de la Cultura. It is in disrepair with parts that are eroded or broken. To try to keep within this context, the figurines that MacConnel has cast, purchased from street vendors, are irregular, broken and "antiqued." The "Ancients" are funny, sad, prideful, odd remnants of tourist art.
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 310, Folder 02, Item 218)
[Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
La Escalinata, Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico)
Type
image
Format
64 concrete figures; mortar (filler); paint
Form/Genre
sculpture (visual work)
installations (visual works)
graffiti
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb42351070
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Popular culture
Aesthetics
Humor
Architecture (object genre)
Toys (recreational artifacts)
Kitsch
Stairs
Decoration and ornament
Statues
Sculpture (visual work)
Installations (visual works)
Graffiti
Mexican-American border region
InSITE94
Place
Mexican-American border region

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