TICK-TOCK JELLY CLOCK COSMOTRON

TICK-TOCK JELLY CLOCK COSMOTRON

Bruce Conner

1961

Accession Number

109890

Medium

Wall component: wood, fabric, cardboard, wallpaper, magazine pages, stickers, string, twine, plastic film, glass fragments, mirror fragments, iron straps, grommets, nails, screws, upholstery tacks, metal foil, aluminum sheet, electrical socket, electrical wiring, rubber hose, beads, costume jewelry parts, sequins, ribbon, nylon stocking, cigarette filter, paint, graphite, bitumen, and resin on pressed hardboard; painted wood frame with mirror segments. Floor component: wood spool, fiberboard cone, paper, paint, monofilament netting, electrical plug, insulated wire, speaker, audio cable, iron wire, rings and clips, paper, yarn, and twine; 1/4 in. reel-to-reel audio tape transferred to digital format.

Dimensions

Wall component: 146 × 136.5 × 12.7 cm (57 1/2 × 53 3/4 × 5 in.); cone: 111.1 × 38.1 cm diameter × (43 3/4 × 15 in. diameter)

Classification

sculpture

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Purchased with funds provided by Janss Foundation; Twentieth-Century Purchase Fund