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Work Record
Class [controlled]:
• sculpture • Modern art
*Work
Type [link]: •
sculpture
*Title: Unique
Forms of Continuity in Space Title
Type: repository
Title: Abstract
Bronze Sculpture Title
Type: descriptive
*Creator
Display: Umberto Boccioni, (Italian,
1882-1916)
*Role
[link]: sculptor [link]: Boccioni,
Umberto
*Creation
Date Display: designed in 1913, cast in
1931 [controlled]: Qualifier:
design • Earliest:
1913 • Latest:
1913 | Qualifier:
casting • Earliest:
1931 • Latest:
1931
*Subject
[links]: • nonrepresentational art •
motion • human figure •
female • nude • space •
striding
Style [link
to authority]: Futurist
Culture [link]: Italian
*Current
Location Display [link]: Museum
of Modern Art (New York, New York, USA) •
ID: 1990.38.3
*Measurements:
111.2 x 88.5 x 40 cm (43 7/8 x 34 7/8 x 15 3/4
inches )
[controlled]: • Value: 111.2
Unit: cm
Type: height
| • Value: 88.5
Unit: cm
Type: width
| • Value: 40
Unit: cm
Type: depth
*Materials
and Techniques: cast and hammered
bronze
Material [links]:
• bronze Technique
[links]: • casting • hammering
Description: The
Futurist ideals were dynamism, progress, and motion
in the new machine age. In this sculpture, the
rush of air displaced by its forward movement
is represented as space in visible extensions
sprouting like wings from the figure's limbs.
The primary subject is not the nude, but movement
itself. According to Boccioni, an invisible fourth
dimension existed as a higher realm of existence
where space and time merged.
Description Source
[link]: Museum of Modern Art online. www.moma.org
(accessed 29 July 2006)
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