Practice question · Select all that apply
Which follow from removing the pedestal and placing a work directly on the floor?
Hints
- Three are consequences of the change in position; one is an engineering claim.
- Stability depends on the base of support, not on whether there is a plinth.
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- A. The separation declaring it to be art is withdrawn
- B. Its scale is measured against the viewer's body rather than a plinth
- C. The work shares the ground the viewer stands on
Why
The fourth confuses two senses of base. Removing the pedestal changes the work's relation to the viewer — shared ground, bodily scale, no declared frame — and says nothing about whether the vertical through its centre of mass falls inside its support.
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