1995.280: The Silence
MultiplesFive film reels cases stacked on top of each other and shown vertically. They are silver-grey in color on a white background.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1995.280
- People
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Joseph Beuys, German (Krefeld, Germany 1921 - 1986 Düsseldorf, Germany)
Published by Edition René Block
Published by Multiples, New York
- Title
- The Silence
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: Das Schweigen
- Classification
- Multiples
- Work Type
- sculpture, multiple
- Date
- 1973
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/177950
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Five reels of 35 mm film, lacquered and galvanized in copper and zinc
- Dimensions
- 26.3 x 38 x 38 cm (10 3/8 x 14 15/16 x 14 15/16 in.)
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Edition
- 20 / 50
- Standard Reference Number
- Schellmann 80, p. 116-117
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, The Willy and Charlotte Reber Collection, Edmée Busch Greenough Fund
- Copyright
- © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
- Accession Year
- 1995
- Object Number
- 1995.280
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Exhibition History
- In/Tuition: a seminar's engagement with Joseph Beuys, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 09/20/1997 - 12/07/1997
- Hard Pressed: 600 Years of Prints and Process, AXA Gallery, New York, 11/02/2000 - 01/14/2001
- Another View of Joseph Beuys: Multiples from New England Collections, David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence, 01/28/2006 - 03/08/2006
- Multiple Strategies: Beuys, Maciunas, Fluxus, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/24/2007 - 06/10/2007
- 32Q: 1100, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/13/2016 - 04/07/2017
Verification Level
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