About the Artwork
Office Fetish was commissioned by the publisher of Art in America when the magazine's offices were moved from one Manhattan location to another. As the traditional black telephones were being replaced by state-of-the-art equipment, Arman capitalized on the instruments' associative qualities and piled them into a critical mass. He allowed the telephones to speak for themselves, ring with the imagined voices of artists and critics, editors and printers, advertisers and distributors, in a cacophony of "artspeak."
Office Fetish
1984
Arman
1928 - 2005
American
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Plastic, metal, and paper
Overall: 53 × 30 × 30 inches (134.6 × 76.2 × 76.2 cm)
Sculpture
Contemporary Art after 1950
Gift of Brant Thoroughbred Publications, Inc.
1986.70
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Provenance
Brant Thoroughbred Publications, Inc. (Lexington, Kentucky, USA);1987-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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van der Marck, Jan. Arman. New York, 1984, pl. 73 (ill.).
"Recent acquisitions." Bulletin of the DIA 63, no. 3/4 (1988): p. 60 (ill.).
Cumming, Robert. ART A Field Guide. New York, 2001, p. 19 (ill.). [Also published in the UK by Everyman Publishers Plc, London under the title A.R.T. a no-nonsense guide to art and artists]
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Arman, Office Fetish, 1984, plastic, metal, and paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Brant Thoroughbred Publications, Inc., 1986.70.
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