Dirt & domesticity : constructions of the feminine

Author

Fuenmayor, Jesús; Haug, Kate; Ward, Frazer; Mertes, Cara (Contributor)

Document type

Catalogue d'exposition

Language

English

Collection

ISP papers ; Num. 2.

Source

Dirt & domesticity : constructions of the feminine. 1992, 79 p., ill.; bibliogr. ref.

Publisher

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (usa)

Publication country

United States

Abstract (en)

Exhibition organized by Jesús Fuenmayor, Kate Haug, and Frazer Ward, fellows in the 1991-1992 Whitney Museum Independent Study Program; Cara Mertes organized an accompanying video program. Examines the cultural definitions of women in the United States, especially the relationship between women's lives and domesticity, using historical and contemporary documentary and "post-documentary" photography, advertisements, video and three-dimensional art. Explores notions of femininity, cleanliness, the home, domestic labor, dirt, and patriarchal oppression in relation to this visual documentation. Catalogue includes essays by Ward, Haug, and Mertes.

Exhibition

• 12 June-14 Aug 1992 ; Whitney Museum of American Art at Equitable Center ; New York (NY, USA) ; United States

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1800-1945 -- United States
• Photography
• United States
• 1900-2000
• Documentary photography
• Video art
• Advertising
• Women
• Iconography
• Femininity
• Work
• Society
• Art
• Exhibitions

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1800-1945 -- États-Unis
• Photographie
• Etats-Unis
• 1900-2000
• Photographie documentaire
• Art vidéo
• Publicité
• Femmes
• Iconographie
• Féminité
• Travail
• Société
• Art
• Exposition

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19920701-00428183

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