{"data":{"id":"30565","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":30565,"topgoose_id":18180,"portfolio_id":null,"tms_id":30565,"title":"Claude Levi-Strauss","display_artist_text":"Rachel Harrison","display_date":"2007","accession_number":"2008.15a-f","dimensions":"Dimensions variable","medium":"Wood, chicken wire, polystyrene, cement, acrylic, taxidermically preserved silver-laced Wyandotte hen and Black Minorca rooster with attached label and mount, USPS Priority Mail cardboard box, and Sharp UX-B20 Fax machine cardboard box","department":"collection","classification":"Sculpture","credit_line":"Purchase, with funds from Warren and Allison Kanders","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":null,"portfolio":null,"edition":null,"publication_info":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eRachel Harrison, \u003cem\u003eClaude Levi-Strauss\u003c/em\u003e, 2007. Wood, chicken wire, polystyrene, cement, acrylic, taxidermically preserved silver-laced Wyandotte hen and Black Minorca rooster with attached label and mount, USPS Priority Mail cardboard box, and Sharp UX-B20 Fax machine cardboard box, dimensions variable. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from Warren and Allison Kanders 2008.15a-f. ©️ Rachel Harrison. Courtesy of Rachel Harrison and Greene Naftali Gallery, New York\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003eClaude Lévi-Strauss is one of nine sculptures that Rachel Harrison exhibited in 2007 alongside fifty-seven portraits dealing with the theme of representing the human subject. Harrison titled each sculpture after a famous man (ranging from historical figures such as John Locke and Amerigo Vespucci to contemporary celebrities like Johnny Depp and Tiger Woods). The exhibition was titled \u003ci\u003eIf I Did It\u003c/i\u003e after a book by O. J. Simpson, in which he offers a \"hypothetical\" description of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. In the two-part \u003ci\u003eClaude Lévi-Strauss\u003c/i\u003e—named for the renowned French anthropologist and ethnologist—Harrison stacked a pair of rectangular orange-red and green bases on U.S. postal and fax machine boxes; on top of the bases, a stuffed hen and rooster face each other. Through this seemingly incongruous combination of formal and symbolic elements, Harrison both alludes to the Structuralist theories of her work’s namesake and composes anthropomorphic forms that suggest properties of the standing body, such as uprightness and balance.\u003c/p\u003e","ai_alt_text":"Two rooster sculptures sit on tall colorful pedestals placed on cardboard boxes in a gallery.","alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2017-08-31T10:20:41.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-02-06T12:01:27.785-05:00","images":[{"id":108368,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/30565/2008_15a-f_vw1_cropped.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"7414","type":"artist"}]}}}}