Sherrie Levine
Bachelors, 1989


In 1989 the bachelor machine was there, waiting, to provide Sherrie Levine with a "way" to make sculpture. The Duchamp effect she needed was not that of the readymade, which describes relations among commodities, and between commodities and their consumers, but that of the bachelor machine, which invokes the connections between part-objects. And the malic molds, otherwise called the cemetary of uniforms and liveries, would provide these part-objects "readymade". The "way to make sculpture" would be to exhume them, to liberate them from the plane of The Large Glass, to cast them in three dimensions.

Rosalind Krauss, Bachelors, 1989.

First shown at Mary Boone Gallery (New York), 9 September - 10 October, 1989.


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