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Therefore, the sculpture serves as the embodiment of feminine power amid a patriarchal society demanding viewers to apply a sense of respect and dignity to the female body and the Black female body as a prominent figure in the urban landscape. In Brick House, Leigh also draws on Batammaliba culture by using cowrie shells on the sculpture's head ...
Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body. Curated by Barabara Thompson, the exhibition displayed at the Hood Museum of Art on the campus of Dartmouth College surveyed the historical construction of stereotypes concerning the black female body, such as the erotic harem slave, the maternal mammy, and the hyper-sexualized black woman.
Erica White (1904–1991), United Kingdom; Rachel Whiteread (born 1963), United Kingdom; Anne Whitney (1821–1915), United States; Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942), United States; Marguerite Wildenhain (1896–1985), United States; Alison Wilding (born 1948), United Kingdom; Hannah Wilke (1940–1993), United States; Cathy Wilkes ...
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Pages in category "Sculptures of women" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. ... Hiropon (sculpture) J. Jeanne d'Arc (Frémiet) K. King and ...
Judith Brown (December 17, 1931 – May 11, 1992) was an American dancer and a sculptor who was drawn to images of the body in motion and its effect on the cloth surrounding it. She welded crushed automobile scrap metal into energetic moving torsos, horses, and flying draperies. [ 1 ] "
Topless members of the Ukrainian feminist protest group Femen took chainsaws to a giant wooden sculpture outside the United Nations in Geneva on Friday, prompting police to intervene, witnesses said.
Expansion is a contemporary art mixed media sculpture (bronze and electricity) by Paige Bradley, first exhibited in 2004. It is a depiction of a nude woman in a meditative state with light emanating from cracks in the body.