  About the Artwork
  
  
  Guyton’s art is based in the modernist tradition of the found object, in which an object is disengaged from its normal use and set into a new context by the artist. “Caged Brain,” a battered bird cage and dusty length of rope, combines two discarded ordinary objects into a work rich with surreal associations and ideas about the oppression of the urban experience. Guyton is best known for his major work, the “Heidelberg Project,” a several block “art environment” on Detroit’s east side.
  
  
  Title
  Caged Brain
  
  
  Artwork Date
  1990
  
  Artist
  Tyree Guyton
  
  
  
  Life Dates
  born 1955
  
  
  
  
  Nationality
  
  
  
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  American
  
  
  
  Culture
  
  
  
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  Medium
  Mixed media
  
  
  Dimensions
  Overall: 16 × 14 × 10 1/2 inches (40.6 × 35.6 × 26.7 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Sculpture
  
  
  Department
  African American Art
  
  
  Credit
  Founders Society Purchase, Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture Fund and Dr. and Mrs. George Kamperman Fund
  
  
  
  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.
  
  
  
  1991.177
  
  
  Copyright
  Non-commercial all standard museum
