Suzanne Bocanegra

Language: English

Published by MW Editions, US, 2020

0998701858 / 9780998701851

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In Poorly Watched Girls, New York based artist Suzanne Bocanegra (born 1957) explores the ways that popular entertainment theatricalizes women in trouble. For the immersive video Valley, she recreated Judy Garland's wardrobe test for Valley of the Dolls (1967). Garland was fired from the film but famously kept the clothing from the test. Here, eight notable women wear replicas of the wardrobe: poet Anne Carson, choreographer Deborah Hay, artist Joan Jonas, singer Alicia Hall Moran, author and actor Tanya Selvaratnam, actor Kate Valk, artist Carrie Mae Weems and ballerina Wendy Whelan. Dialogue of the Carmelites, inspired by Poulenc's 1956 opera based on the true story of a convent of nuns executed during the French Revolution, incorporates music by composer David Lang, performed by Caroline Shaw. In La Fille, Bocanegra uses theatrical sets, costumes and collage to capture the essence of the 18th-century ballet La Fille mal Gardee (The Poorly Guarded Girl), a comic portrayal of young love between two peasants.…

Title
Suzanne Bocanegra
Author
Susan Lubowsky Talbott, Hal Foster, Suzanne Bocanegra
Publisher
MW Editions, US
Publication year
2020
Condition
New
Binding
Hardback
Language
English
ISBN 10
0998701858
ISBN 13
9780998701851
Dimensions
16.76 x 1.78 x 27.94 cm

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