untitled, Robert Carston Arneson

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Robert Carston Arneson, untitled
Robert Carston Arneson, untitled
Robert Carston Arneson
untitled
1975
Robert Carston Arneson, artist
1930–1992
untitled, 1975
Portfolio/Series title: Brick Suite
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: terracotta; casting
Dimensions:
Object Height/Width/Depth (Height x Width x Depth): 10.9 x 21.8 x 6.7 cm
Object Height/Width/Depth (Height x Width x Depth): 4 5/16 x 8 9/16 x 2 5/8 in
Credit line: Gift of Ronald and Marilynn Grais through Landfall Press
Accession number: 1981.0024
On display: Loo Gallery
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Exhibition Label: “Textures of Interpretation: Meaning and Materiality in Global Contemporary Art," Jan-2010, Sooa Im Arneson was a leading figure in the Funk Art movement that flourished in northern California in the 1960s and ‘70s. Objects of mass production like bottles and bricks inspired his whimsical ceramic sculptures. As seen in this work, bricks are among the most prevalent themes in Arneson’s ceramic and print works. For him, the brick symbolizes the foundations of Western civilization, and also becomes a medium through which to question the conventional boundary between art and craft.