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Fountain

San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of One Kind Favor.
San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of One Kind Favor.
Contact us at copyright@samuseum.org for rights and reproduction of this image. © Hills Snyder

Fountain

Artist: (American, born 1950)
Date: 2010
Dimensions:
Beer can without tag: 5 1/2 × 2 1/8 in. (14 × 5.4 cm)
Beer can with tag: 5 1/2 × 8 1/2 × 2 1/8 in. (14 × 21.6 × 5.4 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of One Kind Favor
Object number: 2010.34
Copyright: © Hills Snyder
Label Text
This Lone Star beer can is a conceptual artwork by Hills Snyder, which responded to an exhibition at San Antonio’s Artpace that included commonplace items—such as a cowboy hat and tumbleweed—collected on a Texas road trip. Snyder followed the road trip route in reverse and “repatriated” the Texana artifacts. He photographed the beer can in front of the Mutt Hutt Pet Spa and atop a urinal in homage to Marcel Duchamp’s readymade Fountain (1917). Snyder ultimately returned the can to SAMA, which occupies the historic Lone Star Brewery.

Esta lata de cerveza Lone Star es una obra conceptual de Hills Snyder, la cual respondió a una exhibición en Artpace San Antonio la cual incluía objetos comunes—como un sombrero de vaquero y una planta rodante—recolectadas en un viaje por Texas. Snyder siguió esta ruta en reversa y “repatrió” los artefactos Texanos. Fotografió la lata de cerveza frente al Mutt Hutt Pet Spa y sobre un urinal en homenaje al readymade de Duchamp, Fuente (1917). Al final, Snyder regresó la lata a SAMA, ya que el museo se encuentra localizado en la histórica Cervecería Lone Star.

(LSM, 2024)



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