Brillo Boxes

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Brillo Boxes

1964

Andy Warhol (American, 1928–1987)

Andy Warhol’s Brillo Boxes are precise copies of commercial packaging. While they fulfill the idea that art should imitate life, they also raise questions about how we identify and value something as art. If Warhol transformed a mundane commercial product into a work of art, how did that transformation happen? Considering Warhol made numerous Brillo Boxes and sold them to art collectors and museums, his can also be considered mass-produced consumer goods.

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Object Details

Title:

Brillo Boxes

Date:

1964

Artist:

Andy Warhol (American, 1928–1987)

Medium:

Screenprint and ink on wood

Dimensions:

Each: 17 × 17 × 14 inches (43.2 × 43.2 × 35.6 cm)

Classification:

Sculpture

Credit Line:

Acquired with funds contributed by the Committee on Twentieth-Century Art and as a partial gift of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., 1994

Accession Number:

1994-79-1--3

Geography:

Made in North and Central America

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