2019.10.14: Untitled (blank with faint color transfer, left page); Untitled (notes, right page)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2019.10.14

People

Otto Piene, German (Laasphe, Westphalia, Germany 1928 - 2014 Berlin, Germany)

Title

Untitled (blank with faint color transfer, left page); Untitled (notes, right page)

Other Titles

Series/Book Title: Sketchbook: Food Show/"Boston Celebrations"/Eyes

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

sketchbook page, drawing

Date

1975

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/375524

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black pen on paper

Dimensions

open (approx.): 35.6 × 56.5 cm (14 × 22 1/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: black felt-tipped pen: FOOD SHOW CONTENTS -3 - / MAGGIE LETTVIN / MIRROR / YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT / DER MENSCH IST WAS ER ISST / ETHNIC GROUPS FOR LUNCH / TECHWIVES / CANNIBALISM / INSTRUMENTS / IMPLEMENTS / TOOLS / } BIZARRE / DOLE PINEAPPLE / ARTICHOKE, CASTROBILLE/CAL. / OLDENBURG BANANA, NORWAY / SWEDEN / EDGERTON GROUP / APPLE / RADISH / MILKDROP / EGGS / MANOFF JELLO SCULPTURE / POETRY ROY LAM BAR SPACKS / GRANK CARLTON / FELLOWS 4064 JON. GREEN

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Elizabeth Goldring Piene, gift; to the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 2018.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Elizabeth Goldring Piene

Copyright

© Otto Piene Estate

Accession Year

2019

Object Number

2019.10.14

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Pages 27-28

Subjects and Contexts

• Animating the Page

Related Works

• 2019.10

  Otto Piene

  Sketchbook: Food Show/"Boston Celebrations"/Eyes

  Drawings

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