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Title: Box Prototypes
Artist: Michael de Courcy
Date: October 31, 1969
Format: Photograph [fibre based gelatin silver print]
Location: The Michael de Courcy Archive
Size: 12.70 × 10.20 cm
More Information: An early version of Michael de Courcy’s “Boxes” project. The project was sponsored by the Crown Zellerbach corporation. Crown Zellerbach supported Intermedia through donations of custom made paper products. Specifically the company supported projects by Michael de Courcy, Bob “Box’ Arnold and Gary Lee-Nova all of whom used donated cardboard boxes as material for their work. This partnership between Crown Zellerbach and intermedia was struck up by Intermedia director Werner Aellen. Michael de Courcy’s Boxes were exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in 1970 as part of the Photography into Sculpture a internationally traveling exhibition. Pictured here Michael De Courcy ” Boxes” prototypes. Collection of the artist.
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