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Arthur & Barbara

Artist: Thomas Rose; Designer: Wilber H. Schilling; Author: Introduction by David Carrier; Publisher: Indulgence Press, Minneapolis

wooden box with removable drawer, brass latch and hinges and brown leather handle; top of box inscised "A+B"; drawer contains white portfolio (printed "A+B / Letters" on cover) with fascimiles of typewritten and hand inscribed letters and small baggie affixed to bottom of drawer containing white crystals and a round paper tag printed "see / salt"; top of box contains transparent glass cover etched with floorplan of "A VAGUE APPROXIMATION IN PLAN VIEW OF ARTHUR AND BARBARA'S APARTMENT"; below glass cover, five compartments contain a removable clear glass element etched with characiature of a man and a woman (Arthur Danto and Barbara Westman), black foam rectangle with cutouts containing three dice (two white and one red) with images and text and four removable chair-shaped metal elements (two red, two black), removable yellow and black plastic spinner with white pointer, printed bound book with illustrations and "A+B / Arthur & Barbara" printed on cover and DVD with label with image of a spinner with black pointer and eight various images

Date
2011
In our collection
since February the 9th, 2009 up to now
Dimensions
6 3/4 x 13 1/8 x 13 in. (17.15 x 33.34 x 33.02 cm)
Location
Not on View
Medium
Mixed media multiple consisting of plastic, aluminum and other metals, letterpress and archival pigment printing on paper, pigments, Van Heek cloth, video disc; housed in a hinged mahogany box with leather handle
Price
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Composition
zinc15%
atium72%
cadmium8%
copper5%