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Memory Generator - Receiver

Dennis Oppenheim

Contemporary Art

ARTIST Dennis Oppenheim, American, 1938–2011
MEDIUM Graphite and colored pencil on paper
DATES 1979
DIMENSIONS 31 1/8 x 50 in. (79.1 x 127 cm)
SIGNATURE Signed lower right: "Dennis Oppenheim 1979 2/2"
INSCRIPTIONS Inscribed lower left: "Wide mesa revolving through skylight. Circuit breakers attached to magnets 65' long"; inscribed center right: "Memory Generator-Receiver Transmitter. Project for: ACE Gallery, Los Angeles, 1979"; inscribed lower right: "A Detection Device - A Thought Transformer-Relay system. Elements activated by the passage of a lie."
COLLECTIONS Contemporary Art
ACCESSION NUMBER 83.258.4
CREDIT LINE Gift of Jonathan A. Berg
MUSEUM LOCATION This item is not on view
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