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Preferred term

Perpetual Motif (series)  

Synonym(s)

  • Indestructible Object
  • Last Object
  • Lost Object
  • Object of Destruction
  • Object to Be Destroyed

Note

  • Specific artist: Man Ray, 1890-1976
  • Specific date: 1932-1971
  • Specific medium: multiple, ready-made
  • Specific note: metronome with image of an eye on top of the pendulum

Scope note

  • first produced 1932, then reproduced throughout career; known by many names

Notation

  • 291183
  • 291184

In other languages

  • French

  • Indestructible Object
  • Last Object
  • Lost Object
  • Object of Destruction
  • Object to Be Destroyed

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/HTR-MWC72H27-4

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