Air-Light-Shadow
Max Weber
American, born Russia. 1881–1961
1915
A painted plaster sculpture in which Max Weber translates Cubist concerns into three-dimensional form, arranging thin, sail-like planes to suggest air, light, and shadow.
A squat rectangular base shoots up into three tapered, winglike planes whose rough, pale surfaces and sharp edges slice the air and cast shifting, delicate shadows that change as you move around it.
Made in 1915, the piece brings European Cubist ideas into American sculpture, helping to reopen sculpture as an investigation of planar relationships, movement, and ephemeral effects rather than mere monumentality.
Medium
Polychromed plaster
Dimensions
28 7/8 x 12 1/4 x 10 3/8" (73.2 x 31.1 x 26.3 cm)
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Credit
Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund
Accession
654.1959
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