Oppenheim: Object

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Oppenheim: Object
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Carolyn Lanchner
SeriesMoMA One on One Series
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:48
Dimensions(mm): Height 230,Width 185
Category/GenreArt and design styles - from c 1900 to now
Art and design styles - Surrealism and Dada
Individual artists and art monographs
ISBN/Barcode 9781633450196
ClassificationsDewey:709.2
Audience
General
Illustrations Illustrated in colour and black and white throughout

Publishing Details

Publisher Museum of Modern Art
Imprint Museum of Modern Art
Publication Date 5 October 2017
Publication Country United States

Description

In 1936, invited by Andre Breton to contribute to an exhibition of Surrealist objects, Meret Oppenheim decided to act upon a cafe conversation she had recently had with Pablo Picasso and his then-companion Dora Maar. Commenting on a fur-covered bracelet that Oppenheim had made for the designer Schiaparelli, Picasso remarked that one could cover just about anything in fur, to which Oppenheim had responded, 'Even this cup and saucer.' The resulting sculpture was Object, a teacup, saucer and spoon purchased from a department store and lined with Chinese gazelle fur. In this volume of the MoMA One on One series, an essay by Carolyn Lanchner, a former curator of painting and sculpture at MoMA, explores the subversive nature of this sensual yet disturbing work, which simultaneously attracts and repels the viewer, and of the dreamlike world of Surrealism in which Oppenheim worked.

Author Biography

Carolyn Lanchner is a former curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.