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Artist Haim Steinbach (Israeli-American, born 1944)

Date1988

MediumMixed media construction

DimensionsOverall: 36 × 14 × 14 in. (91.4 × 35.6 × 35.6 cm)

ClassificationSculpture

Credit LineMuseum purchase, 1989

Object numberSN5535

Haim Steinbach inherited a great deal from the Dada movement of the 1910s/20s. Steinbach's most obvious debt is to Duchamp's "readymades". Here, Steinbach has taken common everyday objects and turned them into art by placing them on pedestal-like shelves, ennobling humble garbage cans and lava lamps. The strange combination of the solid but empty garbage cans and the ever-changing blobs of color and light in the lava lamps is meant to unsettle the viewer.

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