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Dark Shore Box
McLean, William, 1978, Mixed media
Dark Shore Box
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Item no
21108
Title
Dark Shore Box
Description
A boxed sculpture of mixed media. The work points to the history of life by the sea.
Artist / maker
McLean, William
Date
1978
Size
45.7 X 45.7 X 15.3 cm
Type
Mixed media
Location
City Art Centre
Accession number
CAC102/1998
Fishing has been a constant theme in MacLean's work. He is concerned not just the process but also with the life and history of the people who live by the sea, especially in the Highlands where his family come from.
Davie's boxes, with their very specific and contained environments, incorporate a strange mixture of objects with a pervasive sense of archaeology and myth, and present a complex iconography that links them to Surrealism (for example Marcel Duchamp's 'Boite en Valise' from 1941) and the work of the American artist Joseph Cornell.
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