id:			449515
accession number:	2021.162
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2021.162
updated:		2023-03-22 03:05:35.591000

Miliki, 1987. Melvin Edwards (American, b. 1937). Steel; 33 x 22.9 x 20.8 cm (13 x 9 x 8 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 2021.162 © Melvin Edwards / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

title:				Miliki
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creation date:			1987
creation date earliest:		1987
creation date latest:		1987
current location:		229B Contemporary
creditline:			Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
copyright:			© Melvin Edwards / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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culture:	America
technique:	steel
department:	Contemporary Art
collection:	CONTEMP - Sculpture
type:		Metalwork
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CREATORS

* Melvin Edwards (American, b. 1937)  - artist

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measurements: 33 x 22.9 x 20.8 cm (13 x 9 x 8 3/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Contemporary Art Rotation - Spring 2022
	opening date:   2022-04-01T04:00:00
	<i>Contemporary Art Rotation - Spring 2022</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 1-September 25, 2022).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

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fun fact:
<em>Lynch Fragments</em> are hung at eye-level (determined by the artist’s height) to invite a direct encounter with the viewer.

digital description:
<em>Miliki</em> (1987) belongs to an ongoing series, <em>Lynch Fragments</em>, which Melvin Edwards began in 1963. The <em>Lynch Fragments</em> are small-scale abstract wall reliefs that feature recognizable objects—often objects that could serve as weapons, such as chains, knives, and railroad spikes. Through Edwards’s composition and welding technique, familiar elements shed their functional associations, becoming lines and shapes in space, and yielding innovative sculptural forms.

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Pedrosa, Adriano, Rodrigo Moura, Renata Bittencourt, Rebecca Wolff, Hamid Irbouh, Melvin Edwards, and Melvin Edwards. <em>Melvin Edwards: Lynch fragments</em>. São Paulo: São Paulo Museum of Art, 2018.
	page number: 	Reproduced and mentioned: p. 110; reproduced: p. 111
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	Valentine, Victoria L. "Scenes from Frieze New York: A Look at African American Art Throughout the Fair." <em>Culture Type</em>, May 3, 2019.
	page number: 	Reproduced: https://www.culturetype.com/2019/05/03/scenes-from-frieze-new-york-a-look-at-african-american-art-throughout-the-fair/
	url:		https://www.culturetype.com/2019/05/03/scenes-from-frieze-new-york-a-look-at-african-american-art-throughout-the-fair/

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