© Thomas Tadlock
Currently not on view
Quadirlateral Light Case with Changing Designs,
1967
Thomas Tadlock, born 1941, Washington, D.C; active New York, NY, and Providence, RI
y1973-99
Kinetic art in the Forbes Collection exemplifies the period of technological idealism that followed World War II, leading artists to experiment with electricity and industrial materials to develop work that could transcend the idea of artistic medium and recenter the meaning of art in the perceptual experience of the viewer. Additionally, this practice presages the increasing globalization of the art world in the second half of the twentieth century and the diasporic experience of artists from Europe and Latin America following the war.
Information
Title
Quadirlateral Light Case with Changing Designs
Dates
1967
Maker
Dimensions
61 × 63.5 × 56 cm (24 × 25 × 22 1/16 in.)
with stand: 129.5 × 66 × 63.5 cm (51 × 26 × 25 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of The Forbes Magazine Collection
Object Number
y1973-99
Description
Interior lights flicker, at random, on transclucent face.
Culture
Type
Materials
[Howard Wise Gallery, New York, New York], sold; to The Forbes Magazine Collection, New York, New York, gift; to Princeton University Art Museum, 1973.
- Lights in orbit: an exhibition of works composed of light in motion created by leading exponents of the art, (New York: Howard Wise Gallery, 1967).
- Light/motion/space, (Minneapolis, MN: Walker Art Center, 1967)., no. 7; p. 17 (illus.)
- Let there be light, (New York: Wise Gallery?, 1967)., p. 5 (illus.)
- New Jersey collects, (Newark, NJ: Newark Museum, 1970)., no. 89
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1974", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 33, no. 1 (1974): p. 37-47., p. 44
- Carolyn H. Wood, Art of the space era: January 16-July 30, 1978, (Huntsville, AL: Huntsville Museum of Art, 1978)., illus. (unpaginated)
