ID: 700008375 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008375	Record Type: Movable Work
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Mother and Child (Divided) (sculpture (visual works); Damien Hirst (English sculptor, installation artist, and pai...; exhibition copy 2007, after an...; Tate Modern ; T12751)

Note: In its reference to a mother and child, Mother and Child (Divided) subverts one of the oldest icons of Western Christian art, the portrait of the Madonna and Child of Catholic devotion. It is a floor-based sculpture comprising four glass-walled tanks, containing the two halves of a cow and calf, each bisected and preserved in formaldehyde solution. The tanks are installed in pairs, the two halves of the calf in front of the two halves of the mother, with sufficient space between each pair that a visitor may walk between them and view the animals’ insides. The heavy frames of Hirst’s tanks have been a signature structure since he created his first steel-framed vitrine in 1990. Hirst created Tate’s copy for exhibition in the Turner Prize Restrospective at Tate Britain in 2007. The original sculpture was created for exhibition at the 1993 Venice Biennale and was subsequently the focal point of the 1995 Turner Prize at Tate Britain (then The Tate Gallery), the year that Hirst won the prize. It is now in the collection of the Astrup Fernley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo.

Titles:

Mother and Child (Divided) (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

sculpture (visual works) [300047090] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

sculptures (preferred)

Creation Date: exhibition copy 2007, after an original designed in 1993

Creator Display:

Damien Hirst (English sculptor, installation artist, and painter, born 1965) [preferred,VP]

sculptor Hirst, Damien (English sculptor, installation artist, and painter, born 1965) [500057379]

Locations:

Current: Term Not Found (ULAN Candidate) (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: T12751

Credit Line: Presented by the artist 2007

Display Materials: glass, stainless steel, Perspex, acrylic paint, cow, calf, and formaldehyde solution

	glass (material) [300010797]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material)

	stainless steel [300010920]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, metal, <metal by composition or origin>, <iron and iron alloy>, iron alloy, steel (alloy), alloy steel, chrome steel)

	Perspex (TM) [300014435]
	.......(Brand Names Facet, Brand Names (hierarchy name), brand name materials)

	acrylic paint [300015058]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>, synthetic resin paint)

	cows (mammals) [300250120]
	.......(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Animalia (kingdom), Chordata (phylum), Vertebrata (subphylum), Mammalia (class), <mammals by sex or age>)

	formaldehyde [300013020]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, organic material)

Dimensions: 2 parts: 208.6 x 322.5 x 109.2 cm, 113.6 x 168.9 x 62.2 cm; Weight installed: approximately 15,750 kg; Weight of each cow half in transit tank: 2,940 kg

Cultures:

British (preferred)

General Subject:

animals (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	cows (mammals) [300250120]
	.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Animalia (kingdom), Chordata (phylum), Vertebrata (subphylum), Mammalia (class), <mammals by sex or age>) (AAT)

	calf (animal) [300310537]
	.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Animalia (kingdom), Chordata (phylum), Vertebrata (subphylum), Mammalia (class), <mammals by sex or age>) (AAT)

	carcasses (animal bodies) [300417462]
	.....(Objects Facet, Components (hierarchy name), components (objects parts), <components by specific context>, biological components, animal components, bodies (animal components), <bodies by state or condition>) (AAT)

	Madonna and Child [901000052]
	.....((Themes surrounding the Virgin Mary, Christian allegory, symbolism, theme, Christian iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

Copyright: © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd.

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: carvings and sculptures

Sources and Contributors:
Mother and Child (Divided)	........ [VP]
	........ Tate Gallery [online] (1999-) accessed 8 April 2014

Subject: ....... [VP]

....................... Tate Gallery [online] (1999-) accessed 8 April 2014

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Tate Gallery [online] (1999-) accessed 24 February 2018