2006.337.2.2: Mr. Harvard (dean of deans)
Performance Artifacts
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2006.337.2.2
- People
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Pierre Huyghe (Paris, France born 1962)
- Title
- Mr. Harvard (dean of deans)
- Classification
- Performance Artifacts
- Work Type
- performance artifact
- Date
- 2004
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/51371
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Paper and string
- Dimensions
- 93 x 28 x 46 cm (36 5/8 x 11 x 18 1/8 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Pierre Huyghe created for Harvard Art Museum "Huyghe + Courbusier: Harvard Project" 2004.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase in part through the Graham Gund Exhibition Fund, Marian Goodman Gallery, Harvard University President and Provost's Discretionary Fund, John and Frances Bowes, Anonymous, LEF Foundation, José Soriano Fund, Etant donnés:The French-American Fund for Contemporary Art, Anthony and Celeste Meier Exhibitions Fund, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (from the French-American Cultural Exchange), Marty Hale and Gabriella DeFerrari
- Copyright
- © Pierre Huyghe / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
- Accession Year
- 2006
- Object Number
- 2006.337.2.2
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Marionette puppet of Mr. Harvard (dean of deans); used in the performance of "This is not a time for dreaming" 2004.
Publication History
- Ingrid Schaffner and Carin Kuoni, The Puppet Show, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, PA, 2008)
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Verification Level
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