{"id":124,"date":"2010-10-06T13:15:59","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T18:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/finearts\/?p=124"},"modified":"2010-10-06T13:15:59","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T18:15:59","slug":"new-modern-art-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/finearts\/2010\/10\/06\/new-modern-art-acquisition\/","title":{"rendered":"New Modern Art Acquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/finearts\/files\/2010\/10\/tinguely2.jpg\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/finearts\/files\/2010\/10\/tinguely3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-127\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/finearts\/files\/2010\/10\/tinguely3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"142\" \/><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Fine Arts Library recently purchased a copy of one of the earliest Jean Tinguely <a href=\"http:\/\/discovery.lib.harvard.edu\/?itemid=|library\/m\/aleph|012515473\" target=\"_blank\">exhibition catalogues<\/a>, his show at the Museum Haus Lange in Krefeld, Germany, September \u2013 October, 1960.<\/p>\n<p>This small show came hard upon Tinguely\u2019s earliest (and perhaps greatest) success, the debut of his \u201cmetamatic\u201d or self-destructing machine <em>Hommage to New York<\/em> at the Museum of Modern Art that spring. The catalogue which accompanied the show in Krefeld consists of a black paper folder with the dates, credits, and colophon (our copy is numbered 230 in yellow crayon), with a quarto folded sheet of photographs of the artist at work and works in situ and two \u2018metamatic\u2019 paintings, each signed by Tinguely in ink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fine Arts Library recently purchased a copy of one of the earliest Jean Tinguely exhibition catalogues, his show at the Museum Haus Lange in Krefeld, Germany, September \u2013 October, 1960. This small show came hard upon Tinguely\u2019s earliest (and perhaps greatest) success, the debut of his \u201cmetamatic\u201d or self-destructing machine Hommage to New York [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2363,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18606],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibition-catalogs","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8gvrn-20","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/finearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/finearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/finearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/finearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2363"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/finearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/finearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/finearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions\/131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/finearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/finearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/finearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}