Matt Johnson, ‘Odalisque’ (2010)
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Also tagged action, America, body, brown, clay, crude, DIY, female, fuckem, fun, grace, joke, lump, matt johnson, matter, nude, plinth, posing, reclining, romance, sculpture, the wild, trash, USA
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Also tagged bald, bodies, crayon, curls, desire, DIY, drawing, female, found, fuckem, fun, kiss, light, love, man, naked, Pablo Picasso, pencil, performance, power, pussy, romance, sex, sketch, sniff, spanish, the wild, trash, unknown, woman
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Fred Wilson, ‘Guarded View’ (1991)
Four mannequins with museum guard uniforms.
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Also tagged american, behavior, body, clothing, collection, corporate, decomment, elegance, fashion, found, fred wilson, fuckem, gesture, guarded, installation, institutional critique, jackets, men, mocking, museum guard, posture, power, suits, surveillance, textile, uniform, view
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Gertrude Quastler, ‘Polly and MacHeath’ (circa 1960)
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Also tagged assemblage, austrian, bottle caps, collection, DIY, female, figures, folklore, found, fuckem, fun, gertrude quastler, leftovers, light, metal, modern art, New York, painting, polly and macheath, povera, romance, rubbish, sculpture, the wild, trash, tribal, woodcuts
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‘Birdcalls’ (1972) by Louise Lawler.
Louise Lawler transformed each name of a male contemporary artist into a specific birdcall and recorded the sound. Listen to them here.
From the book ‘Let’s Take Back Our Space: “Female” and “Male” Body Language as a Result of Patriarchal Structures’ by Marianne Wex (1979)
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Also tagged 70s, action, arm, b/w, body, book, collection, DIY, encyclopedia of gesture, female, gender, Hamburg, language, leg, light, marianne wex, patriarchy, photographs, positions, posture, public space, relational aesthetics, stand still, strangers, what's in a name
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Charles Ray, ‘Phantom Limb’ (1981-85)
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Also tagged action, arm, body, charles ray, DIY, fuckem, human, installation, limb, parts, pedestal, performance, performer, phantom, ramp, romance, sculpture, the wild, unknown
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Fred Wilson
Fred Wilson, ‘Guarded View’ (1991)
Four mannequins with museum guard uniforms.