"Male Jaw-Piece"
Item
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Title
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"Male Jaw-Piece"
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date created
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spring/summer 1998
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designer
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Shaun Leane (British, born 1969)
Alexander McQueen (British, 1969–2010)
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design house
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Alexander McQueen (British, founded 1992)
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description
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To create this piece, British jewelry designer Shaun Leane collaborated with Alexander McQueen to make an aluminum cast of a human male's mandible. The object functions as a memento mori, a reminder of the inevitability of death and the fleetingness of human life.
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accession number
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2018.57
