Vagina Painting.
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Title |
Vagina Painting. |
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Alternative Title |
Vagina Painting, 4 July 1965. |
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Creator |
Kubota, Shigeko (Japanese video artist, born 1937, active in New York City) |
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Date |
1965-07-04 |
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Cultural Context |
American
North American |
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Style/Period |
Fluxus |
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Subject |
Performance art
Performances
Women
Artists
Painting
Brooms & brushes
Blood
Bodily functions |
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Description |
"Retrospectively this performance reads as a proto-feminist riposte to Yves Klein's usurpation of the female 'trace' of five years earlier [Anthropometries of the Blue Age, performance, 9 March 1960]." (Caption, p.105); "[…] Fluxus events could be behaviorally or socially challenging. In 1962, in a concert in Wiesbaden, West Germany, the Korean-born Nam June Paik performed Zen for Head, an interpretation of a 'composition' by the experimental musician La Monte Young which involved him drawing a line on a strip of paper placed on the floor using his head and necktie dipped in ink and tomato juice. Three years later Shigeko Kubota, one of several female participants in Fluxus, translated this event's bloody connotations into female flows with her Vagina Painting, implicitly counterposing the body's productivity to the intellectualism symbolized by Paik's use of his head, although she in fact employed a brush attached to her underwear." (Excerpt, pp.105-106) |
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People Pictured |
Kubota, Shigeko, 1937- |
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Technique |
Painting (image-making) |
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Work Type |
Performance art
Body art |
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Repository |
Gilbert & Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection (New York) |
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Source |
Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.105, fig.51) |
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Rights |
Photo George Maciunas. Reproduced in Hopkins courtesy of Gilbert & Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection. (04831.6/8) |
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Digital Publisher |
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center |
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Format |
image/jpeg |
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Digital File Name |
VRC 827-30.jpg |
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