  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."
  
  
  Title
  Office Fetish
  
  
  Artwork Date
  1984
  
  Artist
  Arman
  
  
  
  Life Dates
  1928 - 2005
  
  
  
  
  Nationality
  
  
  
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  Some definitions include:
  Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation.
  
  
  
  American
  
  
  
  Culture
  
  
  
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  Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group.
  
  
  
  
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  Medium
  Plastic, metal, and paper
  
  
  Dimensions
  Overall: 53 × 30 × 30 inches (134.6 × 76.2 × 76.2 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Sculpture
  
  
  Department
  Contemporary Art after 1950
  
  
  Credit
  Gift of Brant Thoroughbred Publications, Inc.
  
  
  
  Accession Number
  
  
  
  This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection.
  Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings.
  For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups.
  
  
  
  1986.70
  
  
  Copyright
  Restricted
