Book, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: Museum Object and Cultural History
Book, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: date made: 1962. maker: Kesey, Ken. Object Name: book.
The object in the museum catalogue
After voluntarily participating in psychedelic drug testing, author Ken Kesey wrote this novel criticizing treatments used to control individuals exhibiting unconventional behaviors.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1962
- maker: Kesey, Ken
- Object Name: book
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Physical Description: plastic (overall material)
- Physical Description: ink (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 9.7 cm x 6.7 cm x 1.5 cm; 3 13/16 in x 2 5/8 in x 19/32 in
- Subject: Motion Pictures
- ID Number: 2013.3085.01
- catalog number: 2013.3085.01
- nonaccession number: 2013.3085
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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