Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Preview image of work. plastic, Float 26089

2013.21.51

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Float

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Artists

Robert Breer [formerly attributed to Robert Greene];

Title

Float

Creation Date

n.d.

Century

20th-early 21st century ?

Dimensions

4 x 3 3/4 in. (10.16 x 9.53 cm)

Classification

Sculpture

Creation Place

North America, United States

Medium and Support

plastic

Credit Line

Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection

Copyright

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Accession Number

2013.21.51

Known primarily as an experimental film-maker, Robert Breer made important contributions to the American “art and technology” movement of the 1960s. The “floats” he developed in the mid-1960s and which he continued to refine into the 1970s were designed to move imperceptibly. This small-scale version, part of a set of multiples, was battery-powered and relates to larger versions of the sculpture that appeared at the 1970 Osaka World’s Fair as part of Pavilion, an installation organized by Experiments in Art and Technology.