Christina Ramberg: a retrospective
"While best known for her stylized paintings of fragmented female bodies, throughout her brief yet focused career, she vacillated between the depiction of various figural elements--hair, hands, torsos, and garments--while also creating equally rich, abstracted forms that emphasize structure and...
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Chicago, IL
The Art Institute of Chicago
2024
New Haven ; London Yale University Press |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "While best known for her stylized paintings of fragmented female bodies, throughout her brief yet focused career, she vacillated between the depiction of various figural elements--hair, hands, torsos, and garments--while also creating equally rich, abstracted forms that emphasize structure and surface. This retrospective presents approximately 100 works from public and private collections, with several key pieces drawn from the Art Institute's collection. From intimate early paintings focused on the pattern and form of women's hairstyles and garments, to mature work featuring cropped female torsos in lingerie that contains and restrains, the exhibition presents her most iconic imagery while grappling with all phases and elements of Ramberg's continually evolving career. During the mid- to late 1970s, Ramberg pushed her boundary-blurring paintings into a new mode that straddled figuration and abstraction while still questioning idealized body types and gender presentation. These paintings are joined in the exhibition by the artist's experimental quilts of the late 1980s, when her pioneering obsession with handicraft, garment construction, and domestic textiles led her to abandon painting and focus fully on quilt making. The show additionally includes her final body of work as she returned once again to painting, making dark geometric abstractions that still reveal traces of her lifelong fascination, the human torso. The exhibition also recognizes that, in addition to her devotion to drawing, painting, printmaking, and quilting, Ramberg was a note-taker, slide-maker, collector, and diarist. [...]" |
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| Beschreibung: | Umschlagtitel: "Christina Ramberg" |
| Beschreibung: | 253 Seiten 29 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780300275742 978-0-300-27574-2 |