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Oppenheim Object
Oppenheim Object
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Meret Oppenheim's fur-covered cup, saucer, and spoon is a favourite work of many visitors to The Museum of Modern Art. So vividly sensual as to be unsettling, this sculpture, which goes by enigmatically plain title Object, was conceived in 1936, at a cafe on Paris's Left Bank, where Pablo Picasso, seeing Oppenheim wearing a fur bracelet of her own design, mused that anything might be covered in fur; "Even this cup and saucer?" Oppenheim replied, and soon afterward showed Object in a Surrealist exhibition in the city. The work was exhibited at MoMA before the end of the year. Entering the collection with a strange combination of speed and circuitousness, it rapidly became notorious, living a life in the imagination of its viewers that longtime MoMA curator Carolyn Lanchner ably evokes in her comprehensive and spirited essay in this book.
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Language: English
Binding: Paperback
Length: 48 pages
Dimensions: 230 x 185mm (portrait)
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
ISBN- 9781633450196
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