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Photography by Edward C. Robison III.
Eat Meat
Photography by Edward C. Robison III.

Eat Meat

Artist (born 1941)
Date1969/1975
MediumCast aluminum
Dimensions24 x 80 x 54 in. (61 x 203.2 x 137.2 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2010.35
Signedinterior: Eat Meat 1975 / Lynda Benglis
Accession number 2010.35
On View
Not on view
Provenanceto (Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY); (Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA); William J. Hokin, Chicago, IL, by 1985; to (Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA); purchased by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, 2010
Label TextSlumped on the ground, Lynda Benglis created this lava-like form by pouring a foamy polymer and allowing gravity to direct the final shape. Cast in aluminum, she connects the form to a long history of cast sculptures, which often stand erect on a pedestal, boldly announcing their presence. During a time when clean lines, rigid grids, and the removal of the evidence of making prevailed, Benglis’s use of organic forms and visceral titling positioned Eat Meat in direct opposition.

Lynda Benglis creó esta forma semejante a la lava, desplomada sobre el suelo, vertiendo un polímero espumoso y permitiendo que la gravedad actuara sobre la pieza final. La artista conecta la forma, vaciada en aluminio, a una larga historia de esculturas vaciadas, que suelen erigirse sobre un pedestal anunciando claramente su presencia. Su uso de formas orgánicas y títulos viscerales posicionó esta obra en contraste con las líneas definidas, las cuadrículas rígidas y la eliminación de toda marca del proceso de creación, estilos que prevalecían la época.

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