Content deleted Content added
Line 74:
== 1958 Kinetic Sculpture Christmas Tree Sensation at <br />The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art''' ==
<blockquote>
'' 'The Christmas Tree' was supposed to have something to do with playing colors by light, but it was totally random as far as I could tell, just absurd.''
Wally Hedrick created a sensation in [[1958]] when one of his mechanical assemblages "attacked" a woman at the [[San Francisco Museum of Modern Art]]'s annual Christmas party and holiday exhibition. His ''Xmas Tree'', "sort of the pinnacle of the kenetic junk sculptures because I'd never attempted any thing so complicated" <ref> Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Wally Hedrick Interview. </ref>, built out of "two radios, two phonographs, flashing lights, electric fans, saw motor--all controlled by timers, hooked so [they] would cycle all these things." One of the record players played "I Hate to See Christmas Come Around." At the opening, which Hedrick refused to attend, he set a timer so that the piece "suddenly began flashing its lights, honking its horns, and playing its records." One woman who was standing next to the piece when it suddenly turned on found her fur coat tangled into it and then received an electrical shock. <ref> Richard Candida Smith, 1995, pp 202-203. See Also: Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Wally Hedrick Interview:<blockquote>
| |||