Material Interchange for Joe Stranard, Aspen, Colorado
During the 1960s Oppenheim, Robert Smithson, and others sought to liberate sculpture from the pedestals of the gallery and museum, choosing instead to make ephemeral, antimonumental works that were inextricably bound to their sites and dependent upon photography to provide evidence of their fleeting existence. Oppenheim was particularly interested in the terrains of both the landscape and the human body as potential sites for markings or gestures.
Artwork Details
- Title: Material Interchange for Joe Stranard, Aspen, Colorado
- Artist: Dennis Oppenheim (American, Electric City, Washington 1938–2011 New York)
- Date: 1970
- Medium: Chromogenic print
- Dimensions: Frame a: 96.8 x 141.6 cm (38 1/8 x 55 3/4 in.)
Frame b: 23.5 x 142.2 cm (9 1/4 x 56 in.) - Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Gift of the artist, 2003
- Object Number: 2003.450a, b
- Rights and Reproduction: © Estate Dennis Oppenheim
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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