{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"1327"},"copyright":{"label":"Copyright","value":"Copyright for this work is under review."},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Gift of Dorothea and Leo Rabkin"},"endDate":{"label":"End Date","value":"1972"},"sortNumber":{"label":"Sort Number","value":"1983    17    4"},"invno":{"label":"Accession number","value":"1983.17.4"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":"whirligig"},"edition":{"label":"Photo Credit","value":"American Folk Art Museum"},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Painted metal and wood"},"geographyPlaceregion":{"label":"Place/Region","value":"West New York"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":[{"mediaURL":"https://collection.folkartmuseum.org/internal/media/dispatcher/27170/full","mediaDepartment":"Object Photographs","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"27170"},{"mediaURL":"https://collection.folkartmuseum.org/internal/media/dispatcher/27171/full","mediaDepartment":"Object Photographs","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"27171"},{"mediaURL":"https://collection.folkartmuseum.org/internal/media/dispatcher/27172/full","mediaDepartment":"Object Photographs","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"27172"},{"mediaURL":"https://collection.folkartmuseum.org/internal/media/dispatcher/27173/full","mediaDepartment":"Object Photographs","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"27173"}]},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Boys"},"geographyCity":{"value":"West New York"},"textEntriesWebsitedisplaytext":{"value":["Object information is a work in progress and may be updatedwith new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk ArtMuseum welcomes additional information.　To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.org","SCULPTURE","Whirligig","\u201cIf it was a windy day, everything was moving,\u201d the artist\u2019s daughter remembers about Matteo Radoslovich\u2019s backyard folk art environment. Throughout the twentieth century and earlier, self-taught masters have embellished their outdoor spaces with multi-media installations. Typically, a project begins humbly, with a wind toy or a bird-bath or a free-standing sculpture, and progressively grows to occupy every available space. It is also standard that while the initial motivation to create may be a personal and private act, as a folk art environment expands public awareness flourishes and these spaces can become community based; they may even become tourist destinations. They can be seen as contemporary versions of the eighteenth-century folly. The West New York, New Jersey yard-art installation of more than thirty sculptures by Matteo Radoslovich, like so many folk art environments, is made of found material. Unlike many folk art installations, however, Radoslovich built his creation in the backyard yet attracted an audience nonetheless. The artist designed a star pattern in his backyard, and bordered it with his wind toys and sculptures made of wood scraps, glass jars, metal cans, and other sundry cast-offs depicting airplanes, animals, figures and whimsical characters. 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