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American,
b. 1943
Rat Garage
1962
Metal and rubber
11.5 x 24.875 x 16.25 in.
Gift of the Kathryn C. Wanlass Foundation
2009.81
Jim Eller’s 1962 assemblage Rat Garage has two components: a metal multicolored toy parking garage and, in place oftoy cars, bright pink rubber rats. Following the precedent established by Marcel Duchamp’s readymades, both garage and rats are commercially manufactured products, selected and purchased by the artist rather than fashioned by his own hand. But unlike the ordinary commercial items favored by Duchamp, Eller’s toys are highly charged representations, sharing qualities with art even before he juxtaposed the disparate objects. Like classic pop art but even more so, the resulting artwork is so disarming, so seemingly innocent, that it effectively masks the disruptive critique of authorship and originality lurking behind its sunny affect.
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