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Untitled (Your manias become science)

1986
20th century
50 x 54 x 9 mm (2 x 2.1 x 0.4 in.)

Barbara Kruger, American, b. born 1945

Object Type: other

Medium and Support: Photolithograph on matchbooks in cellophane sleeves

Edition: Set of two printed matchbooks with 30 matches in each book. Manufactured by Superior Match Co. Per MoMA collection object cataloging, these matchbooks were published by David Meitus, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, in an open edition.

Marks: Printed in white ink on verso of each book: “FOR SAFETY STRIKE ON BACK” and “SUPERIOR MATCH CO., CHICAGO, IL.”

Bibliography: See collections object page at The Museum of Modern Art: http://www.moma.org/collection/works/63036 .

Credit Line: Gift of Jolie Stahl and Robert Dannin to honor Isadora Dannin ’14, 2013

Accession Number: 2013.8.29a-b

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matchbooks*, science*

matchbooks - Small cardboard folders into which paper matches are stapled or glued. RHDEL2 [June 1992 descriptor added.]
science - Use for the group of studies or branches of knowledge concerned with facts and phenomena of the observable or quantifiable world, systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws. [April 1996 lead-in terms added; scope note added; related term added. July 1993 descriptor moved. January 1991 alternate term added.]

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object Dimensions: 50 x 54 x 9 mm (2 x 2.1 x 0.4 in.)

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Barbara Kruger, American, b. born 1945 . Untitled (Your manias become science), 1986. Photolithograph on matchbooks in cellophane sleeves. object : 50 x 54 x 9 mm (2 x 2.1 x 0.4 in.). DAC accession number 2013.8.29a-b. Gift of Jolie Stahl and Robert Dannin to honor Isadora Dannin ’14, 2013.

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