John Divola
Zuma #4

Zuma #4

© 1978 John Divola

Zuma #4
Zuma #4
ArtistAmerican, born 1949
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Zuma #4
  • from the series Zuma
Date1978, printed 1979
Place depictedMalibu, California, United States
MediumChromogenic print
DimensionsImage: 9 13/16 × 12 1/16 in. (24.9 × 30.6 cm)
Sheet: 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Clinton T. Willour and the Mundy Companies
Object number80.1.5
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
DescriptionAlthough the physical subjects that John Divola photographs range from buildings to landscapes to objects in the studio, his concerns are conceptual. Divola developed his own combination of performance art, sculpture, and installation, with photography at its conceptual core. For his Zuma series, Divola focused on a Southern California beachfront property that was being used intermittently by the fire department for firefighting practice. As he observed and photographed the building over the course of two years, it was ravaged by fire, vandalism, and the artist’s own graffiti. These acts of human “intervention,” as he saw them, became integrated with the inevitable natural processes of decay.
Provenance[Landweber/Artists, Los Angeles]; purchased by MFAH, 1980.
Exhibition HistoryExhibited: "Pacific Views," the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 1 - May 23, 2004
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
signed and dated on verso

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