Sentences with phrase «destructing homage»
[6] Jean Tinguely's fantastic machines, notoriously the self - destructing Homage to New York (1960), were another approach to the subversion of the mechanical.
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The kinetic art never goes so far as to self - destruct like Tinguely's Homage to New York.
In a 1960 exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, just weeks after Tinguely arrived in New York for the first time, the Swiss artist presented «Homage to New York,» a self - destructing mass of metal to which Rauschenberg contributed a toaster that flung silver dollars at the audience.
His «masterpiece», Homage to New York (1960), was an assemblage or contraption made out of junk which was supposed to self destruct in the garden of the Museum of Modern Art, New York - except it failed to destroy itself as programmed, and started a fire instead.
No doubt this was an important element in the philosophy behind the work of Jean Tinguely (1925 - 91), the unsurpassed master of self - destructing sculpture, whose masterpiece is generally reckoned to be Homage to New York (1960, Museum of Modern Art, New York).
His most celebrated «event» was his self - destructing installation, known as Homage to New York (1960) which, after extensive negotiation, the Museum of Modern Art in New York agreed to have inaugurated in its sculpture garden on March 17, 1960.