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Larger Image	Larger image may be viewed by UofL faculty, staff, and students only (log-in required using ULink username/password) at: http://echo.louisville.edu/login?url=http://vrc-web.louisville.edu/Jpegs/820/827-30.jpg
Title	Vagina Painting.
Alternative Title	Vagina Painting, 4 July 1965.
Creator	Kubota, Shigeko (Japanese video artist, born 1937, active in New York City)
Date	1965-07-04
Cultural Context	American North American
Style/Period	Fluxus
Theme	Performance art Body art Performances (entertainment events) Women Performance artists Artists Profiles (figures) Painting (image-making) Brushes Paintbrushes Blood (animal material) Reproductive biology Eye-level views
Subject	Performance art Performances Women Artists Painting Brooms & brushes Blood Bodily functions Anatomy Genitals Human body
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)
People Pictured	Kubota, Shigeko, 1937-
Technique	Painting (image-making)
Work Type	Performance art Body art
Repository	Gilbert & Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection (New York)
Source	Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.105, fig.51)
Rights	Photo George Maciunas. Reproduced in Hopkins courtesy of Gilbert & Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection. (04831.6/8)
Digital Publisher	University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format	image/jpeg
Digital File Name	VRC 827-30.jpg
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