Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 9: Agam Fountain
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Preferred Title:
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Agam Fountain
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Image View:
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Aerial view, from top of the Grande Arche, depicting general context
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Creator:
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Yaacov Agam (Middle Eastern artist, born 1928)
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Location:
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site: Paris, Île-de-France, France
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Location Note:
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La Défense
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Date:
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1975 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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French
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Style Period:
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Twentieth century
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Work Type 1:
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fountain
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Classification:
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installation, environmental, stage sets
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Material:
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lights; sound system
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Technique:
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construction (assembling)
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Subjects:
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abstraction or non-objective; architectural exteriors; contemporary (1960 to present); music; Fountains; parks (recreation areas); lights; lighting; color spectrum; optical-kinetic; aerial views
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Description:
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The fountain plays with music and illuminates. "Later works...are as much optical as kinetic in their effects. The transience of forms, and the power of light to dissolve them, could be said to have been Agam's real subject." (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Addition Module Three
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Identifier:
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1A2-F-P-AF-A2
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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