Work Record
Class [controlled]:
• sculpture • conceptual art •
Modern art
*Work
Type [link]:
• maquette (sculpture) •
construction (sculpture)
*Title:
Maquette for Radio-Announcer
*Creator
Display: Gustav Klucis (Latvian, 1895-1944)
*Role
[link]: artist [link]:
Klucis, Gustav
*Creation
Date: 1922 [controlled]: •
Earliest: 1922 • Latest: 1922
*Subject
[links]: • didactic art •
propaganda • radio announcer •
Lenin (Russian revolutionary, 1870-1924) •
Russian Revolution • loudspeaker •
protest
Culture [link]:
• Russian • Latvian
*Current
Location [link]: Museum
of Modern Art (New York, New York, United States)
• ID:
unavailable
*Measurements:
106.1 x 36.8 x 36.8 cm (45 3/4 x 14 1/2 x 14 1/2
inches)
[controlled]: • Value:
106.1 Unit:
cm Type: height
| • Value:
36.8 Unit:
cm Type: width
| • Value:
36.8 Unit:
cm Type: depth
*Materials
and Techniques: construction piece made
of painted cardboard, paper, wood, thread, and metal
brads
Material [links]:
• construction (sculpture) • cardboard
• paper • wood •
thread • brads Technique
[links]: • construction (sculpture)
Inscriptions: inscribed
in Russian: [Lenin; speech; radio announcer]
Description: Klucis
made this maquette, or model, as a design for a
"radio-announcer"-a street-based loudspeaker-to
be placed at city intersections, where it was to
broadcast a speech by Lenin on the fifth anniversary
of the Russian Revolution. An architecture of struts
and cables supports geometric panels and gaily painted
loudspeakers. The work clearly announces its purpose:
the name "Lenin" appears in large red letters on
an arrangement of vanes.
Description Source
[link]: Museum of Modern Art online. www.moma.org
Page: accessed
22 December 2006
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