Object to Be Destroyed
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Object to Be Destroyed is a work by American artist Man Ray, originally created in 1923. The work, destroyed in 1957, consisted of a metronome with a photograph of an eye attached to its swinging arm. It was remade in multiple copies in later years, and renamed Indestructible Object. It is considered to be a "readymade", following in the relatively new tradition established by Marcel Duchamp of employing ordinary manufactured objects that usually were modified very little, if at all, in works of art.
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In popular culture
- The Mark Romanek-directed music video for Nine Inch Nails' 1994 song Closer contains footage of a similar piece keeping time with the song.
- They Might Be Giants released an EP entitled Indestructible Object in 2004.
- Danny Elfman uses an image of the Indestructible Object on the cover of his "Music for a Darkened Theatre, Vol. 1: Film & Television" compilation CD.
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