COLLECTION NAME:
Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Image Record ID:
aahi0009252
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aahi0009252
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Work Title (display):
Peabody (Animal Drawings)
Image Title:
installation view
Work Dates (display):
1996
Work Dates type:
creation
Image Date (display):
2012-02-29
Work Creator (display):
Kiki Smith (American, born 1954)
Work Creator gender:
female
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female
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Work Creator notes (display):
American sculptor, draughtsman and printmaker of German birth. She was brought up in New Jersey and attended Hartford Art School, CT (19746). Having exhibited on an annual basis from 1982 at the Fawbush Gallery, New York, she received significant acclaim for her exhibition in the Projects Room at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1990. By manipulating everyday materials such as glass, ceramic, fabric and paper, Smith's work examined the dichotomy between the psychological and physiological power of the body. Her influences came not from her father, Minimalist sculptor Tony Smith, but from his female contemporaries Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse and Lee Bontecou. Smith's first full-size sculptures of the body, a naked male and female couple (Untitled, beeswax, 1990; New York, Fawbush Gal.), are stoic figures, yet each is psychologically impeded by leaking bodily fluids; her milk nourishes nothing, his semen propagates nothing. Human power and powerlessness are also addressed in Blood Pool (bronze and glass, 1992; New York, PaceWildenstein Gal., see 19978 exh. cat., no. 3), in which vertebrae, no longer the fortitude of the body, protrude from the flesh. Breaking from the classical portrayal of women in art as harmonious and self-contained, Smith defined the female in terms of a woman's lived experience in such works as Lilith (silicon bronze and glass, 1995; e.g. New York, Met.), whose crouching, defecating body both threatens and cowers. A series of untitled collaged lithographs (1994; New York, PaceWildenstein Gal.), based on paper doily patterns in the shape of butterflies and snowflakes accompanied by paper eyes and vaginas, marked her departure from the body as the primary subject of her art. (Grove Art Online Accessed 2006-07-28)
Work Style Period:
20th century
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20th century
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false
Work Style Period:
Contemporary
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Contemporary
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Work Subject:
iconography
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iconography
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Work Subject:
storytelling
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storytelling
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
wolves
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wolves
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
mythology, contemporary
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mythology, contemporary
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
pigs
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pigs
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
deer
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deer
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
figures
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figures
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false
Work Subject:
cats
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cats
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false
Work Subject:
animals
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animals
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false
Work Worktype:
collage (visual works)
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collage (visual works)
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false
Work Worktype:
drawings
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drawings
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false
Work Category (VRC classification):
collage
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collage
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false
Work Category (VRC classification):
drawings
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drawings
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false
Work Material and Technique (display):
Ink on paper
Work Location (Repository or Site) name:
Huntington Gallery
Work Location (Repository or Site) role:
repository
Work Location (Geographic) name:
Boston, Massachusetts
Image Source Reproduction citation:
Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.). Art 21: Art in the Twenty-First Century 2. Ed. Susan Sollins & Marybeth Sollins. New York, N.Y: Abrams, 2003. Print.
image_source_copy_from_print_name
Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.). Art 21: Art in the Twenty-First Century 2. Ed. Susan Sollins & Marybeth Sollins. New York, N.Y: Abrams, 2003. Print.
Image Source Reproduction citation
false
Image Source Reproduction refid:
0-8109-4609-2
Image Source Reproduction page number:
43
Image Source Reproduction refid type:
ISBN
Image Rights (display):
© Gregory Heins
Image Rights fair use checklist:
1) use of this image is for education and educational research; 2) access is restricted to University of Colorado and Auraria Higher Education Center communities; 3) the original photographer is credited if known; 4) the image is published; 5) the amount of the work in relation to the whole is needed for education or educational research; 6) the number of derivatives is the minimum required for education or educational research; 7) the image has not been found to be reasonably available for sale; 8) duplication of the image does not violate preexisting contracts.
Work Rights (display):
© Kiki Smith
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Holding Institution:
University of Colorado at Boulder
Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Collection
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