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Maker(s):Anderson, Laurie
Culture:American (1947-)
Title:Private Property from Artifacts at the End of a Decade
Date Made:1980
Type:Time-Based Media; Sound Recording
Materials:Evatone sound sheet created from a tape for harmonized voice, dogs, and violin, mounted on an offset print from a photograph
Measurements:overall: 13 1/8 in x 17 in; 33.3375 cm x 43.18 cm
Accession Number:  UM 1986.71.2
Credit Line:Purchased with funds from University of Massachusetts Alumni Association and Robert D. Watson in memory of Mary Watson.
Museum Collection:  University Museum of Contemporary Art at UMASS Amherst
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Label Text:
As ARTIFACTS was being readied for print in 1981, another track off Laurie Anderson's "United States (Live)," O Superman, became a sleeper hit, rising to #2 in the UK's singles charts. Anderson was known in New York during the '70s for her multimedia performance art focusing on language, technology, and imagery; but 1981 was the year she became known worldwide as an avant-garde polymath genius. She was awarded a 1982 Guggenheim Fellowship, and most recently a 2019 Grammy for "Landfall" with the Kronos Quartet.

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