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American
(1930–1992)
Nose Brick
1978
Earthenware
4.5 x 9.5 x 2.75 in.
Gift of the Nora Eccles Treadwell Foundation
2021.26
With humor, a biting wit, and tongue-in-cheek satire, Robert Arneson expanded the possibilities of American sculptural ceramics. Nose Brick, a visual pun, combines the functionality of a clay brick with a deconstructed figural representation of the artist’s nose and mouth. Arneson is considered one of the founders of the ceramic Funk art movement, which represented a monumental shift in American ceramics away from the functional vessel tradition and toward experimental sculpture, often of the human figure. In Nose Brick, anonymous functionality is replaced by the ego of the artist.
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