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Art Criticism and the Gendering of Lee Bontecou's Art, ca. 1959 - 1964

This thesis identifies and analyzes gendering in the art writing devoted to Lee Bontecou's metal and canvas sculptures made from the 1959 - 1964. Through a careful reading of reviews and articles written about Bontecou's constructions, this thesis reconstructs the context of the art world in the United States at mid-century and investigates how cultural expectations regarding gender directed the reception of Bontecou's art, beginning in 1959 and continuing through mid-1960s. Incorporating a description of the contemporaneous cultural context with description of the constructions and an analysis of examples of primary writing, the thesis chronologically follows the evolution of a tendency in art writing to associate gender-specific motivation and interpretation to one recurring feature of Bontecou's works.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc5587
Date12 1900
CreatorsEstrada-Berg, Victoria
ContributorsWay, Jennifer, Colpitt, Frances, Mayer, Melinda
PublisherUniversity of North Texas
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
FormatText
RightsUse restricted to UNT Community (strictly enforced), Copyright, Estrada-Berg, Victoria, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

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