"monument" for V. Tatlin, 1975
About this artwork
This is one of a series of works dedicated to the Russian constructivist artist Vladimir Tatlin (1885- 1953). Tatlin treated art in engineering terms and embraced industry and technology. Flavin described Tatlin as, 'the great revolutionary, who dreamed of art as science'. By using fluorescent lights which could be bought in any hardware store, Flavin challenged the viewer's idea of art as dependant on an 'original' object. His choice of a banal, mass-produced, 'modern' object has close parallels with the use of material from popular culture by contemporary pop artists.
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artist:Dan Flavin (1933 - 1996) American
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title:"monument" for V. Tatlin, 1975
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date created:1975
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materials:Fluorescent lights
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measurements:305.00 x 61.00 x 12.00 cm
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credit line:Purchased 1983
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accession number:GMA 2799
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artwork photographed by:Antonia Reeve
Dan Flavin
Dan Flavin
American artist Dan Flavin began his career as a meteorologist and had almost no formal art training. He studied art history at Columbia University, New York in the late-1950s and made his first light work in 1963, fixing a fluorescent light tube to a wall at a 45 degree angle. From that time he...
