Currently not on view
Seven Diffraction Hex,
1967
USCO, American, founded 1964
y1973-102 a-b
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
Seven Diffraction Hex
Dates
1967
Maker
Dimensions
117 × 94 × 79 cm (46 1/16 × 37 × 31 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of The Forbes Magazine Collection
Object Number
y1973-102 a-b
Description
Two pieces stacked. Seven lighted hexagons, attached to octagon, that gyrate intermittently.
Culture
Type
[Howard Wise Gallery, New york, New York], sold; to The Forbes Magazine Collection, New York, New York, gift; to Princeton University Art Museum, 1973.
- Let there be light, (New York: Wise Gallery?, 1967)., p. 5 (illus.)
- 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.)
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1974", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 33, no. 1 (1974): p. 37-47., p. 46; p. 47 (illus.)
