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Meret Oppenheim "Object" (1936), Fur-covered cup, saucer, and spoon, Cup: 4.3 inches (10.9 cm) in diameter; saucer: 9.3 inches (23.7 cm) in diameter; spoon: 8 inches (20.2 cm) long, overall height 2.9 inches (7.3 cm).
© 2007 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / Pro Litteris, Zurich, Courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art
The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection
Movements & Syles:
Dada and Surrealism
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The artists, writers and poets associated with Surrealism placed persistent emphasis on the power of the imagination to transform the everyday. Beginning in the early 1930s, the production of elliptically erotic, sexually-charged objects became increasingly central to their concerns. This exhibition, drawn from the Museum’s collection, includes a number of Surrealism’s most celebrated objects and sculptures, ranging from Salvador Dalí’s bread-and-inkwell-crowned Retrospective Bust of a Woman (1933) to Alberto Giacometti’s enigmatic Hands Holding the Void (Invisible Object) (1934
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