Details

Title

Perfect Vehicle #1629

Artist/Maker

Allan McCollum (American, born 1944)

Date

1989

Medium

Acrylic on glass-fiber-reinforced concrete

Dimensions

78 x 36 x 36 inches

Credit

The Lenore and Burton Gold Collection of 20th Century Art

Accession #

1999.111

On View

On View - Wieland Pavilion, Skyway, Gallery 417

Allan McCollum conceived of his Perfect Vehicle series of works in 1979 to challenge preconceived assumptions about art by making references to precious objects such as antique porcelain. He studied different types of vases until he arrived at a shape that resembles a large ginger jar, even though it is an amalgam of many types of vessels. Each Perfect Vehicle is identical in shape and painted with commercially available house paint. It therefore lacks the elegant surface associated with ceramics and represents both the image of an art object and its archetype.

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