Object, 1936
Materials: Fur-covered cup, saucer, and spoon, cup
Process: Adhesive to attach fur
Content: Surrealism, hard/soft, luxury
Oppenheim uses fur to create a surrealist object: “a sculpture that joined incongruous parts to create an impossible, uncanny object” It brings about ideas of hard and soft, luxury and the tactile experience of using the objects.
Gotthardt, Alexxa. “MoMA’s First Work by a Female Artist Was a Fur-Lined Teacup.” Artsy, 11 Jan. 2018, www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-momas-first-work-female-artist-fur-lined-teacup.