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Item Details
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.
Further Research: The Intermedia CatalogueRelated Items
- 01. Crown Zellerbach Canada Meeting
Michael de Courcy and Henry Rappaport (Photograph) - 02. Vancouver Art Gallery self-publishing workshop
Michael de Courcy (Photograph) - 03. Box Prototypes
Michael de Courcy (Photograph) - 04. Michael de Courcy's "Intermedia Room" at the Vancouver Art Gallery
Michael de Courcy (Photograph) - 05. Bob Arnold fabricating an installation for Electrical Connection
Bob "Box" Arnold and Michael de Courcy (Photograph) - 06. Mick Henry opening
Michael de Courcy (Photograph) - 07. Boxes under the Granville Street bridge
Bob "Box" Arnold and Michael de Courcy (Photograph) - 08. Steve Paxton workshop at Intermedia
Jack Dale, Michael de Courcy, Gathie Falk, Joan Lowndes, Michael Morris, and Judith Schwarz (Photograph)
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- 09. Canada Council grant images
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Michael de Courcy and Gary Lee-Nova (Photograph) - 12. Canada Council grant images
Michael de Courcy (Photograph) - 13. Canada Council grant images
Michael de Courcy (Photograph) - 14. Pencil Drawing
Chief Henry Speck (Drawing) - 15. Boxes on Pender Street
Bob "Box" Arnold and Michael de Courcy (Photograph)
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