Self-Destructive Sculpture In Jean Tinguely's Homage To New York

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In 1960, Jean Tinguely created his most well-known performance piece, “Homage to New York.” The work was unique in that was a live self-destructive sculpture in front of an audience at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Twenty-three feet long and twenty-seven feet high, the piece was composed of bicycle wheels, motors, a piano, an addressograph, a go-cart, a bathtub, and other cast-off objects. More or less the piece could be easily misconstrued from a pile of junk. During its brief 27-minute operation, a meteorological trial balloon inflated and burst, colored smoke was discharged, paintings were made and destroyed, and bottles crashed to the ground. A player piano, metal drums, a radio broadcast, a recording of the artist explaining his

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