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TICK-TOCK JELLY CLOCK COSMOTRON

A work made of wall component: wood, fabric, cardboard, wallpaper, magazine pages, stickers, string, twine, plastic film, glass fragments, mirror fragments, iron straps, grommets, nails, screws, upholstery tacks, metal foil, aluminum sheet, electrical socket, electrical wiring, rubber hose, beads, costume jewelry parts, sequins, ribbon, nylon stocking, cigarette filter, paint, graphite, bitumen, and resin on pressed hardboard; painted wood frame with mirror segments. floor component: wood spool, fiberboard cone, paper, paint, monofilament netting, electrical plug, insulated wire, speaker, audio cable, iron wire, rings and clips, paper, yarn, and twine; 1/4 in. reel-to-reel audio tape transferred to digital format..
© 2018 Conner Family Trust, San Francisco / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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  • A work made of wall component: wood, fabric, cardboard, wallpaper, magazine pages, stickers, string, twine, plastic film, glass fragments, mirror fragments, iron straps, grommets, nails, screws, upholstery tacks, metal foil, aluminum sheet, electrical socket, electrical wiring, rubber hose, beads, costume jewelry parts, sequins, ribbon, nylon stocking, cigarette filter, paint, graphite, bitumen, and resin on pressed hardboard; painted wood frame with mirror segments. floor component: wood spool, fiberboard cone, paper, paint, monofilament netting, electrical plug, insulated wire, speaker, audio cable, iron wire, rings and clips, paper, yarn, and twine; 1/4 in. reel-to-reel audio tape transferred to digital format..

Date:

1961

Artist:

Bruce Conner
American, 1933–2008

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Contemporary Art

Artist

Bruce Conner

Title

TICK-TOCK JELLY CLOCK COSMOTRON

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1961

Medium

Wall component: wood, fabric, cardboard, wallpaper, magazine pages, stickers, string, twine, plastic film, glass fragments, mirror fragments, iron straps, grommets, nails, screws, upholstery tacks, metal foil, aluminum sheet, electrical socket, electrical wiring, rubber hose, beads, costume jewelry parts, sequins, ribbon, nylon stocking, cigarette filter, paint, graphite, bitumen, and resin on pressed hardboard; painted wood frame with mirror segments. Floor component: wood spool, fiberboard cone, paper, paint, monofilament netting, electrical plug, insulated wire, speaker, audio cable, iron wire, rings and clips, paper, yarn, and twine; 1/4 in. reel-to-reel audio tape transferred to digital format.

Dimensions

Wall component: 146 × 136.5 × 12.7 cm (57 1/2 × 53 3/4 × 5 in.); cone: 111.1 × 38.1 cm diameter × (43 3/4 × 15 in. diameter)

Credit Line

Purchased with funds provided by Janss Foundation; Twentieth-Century Purchase Fund

Reference Number

1969.815a-b

Copyright

© 2018 Conner Family Trust, San Francisco / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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