Brillo Boxes
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Brillo Boxes is a work of art by American artist Andy Warhol, designed by James Harvey.
In 1964 Andy Warhol, then still relatively unknown, built a wooden statue replicating a stack of Brillo pads shipping cartons. Brillo is the name for a brand of scouring pads, used for cleaning dishes, and made from steel wool impregnated with soap.
It is one of Warhol's most famous sculptures, silkscreened ink on wood replicas of Brillo soap pad boxes, part of a series of "grocery carton" sculptures that also included Heinz ketchup and Campbell's tomato juice cases.
These boxes were first displayed at the Stable Gallery Show in 1964. They are known as the Brillo Boxes and are as (in)famous as Marcel Duchamp's 1917 Fountain.
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