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Suzanne Bocanegra : Poorly watched girls

Title: Suzanne Bocanegra : Poorly watched girls / editor: Amy Wilkins.
Publication: Philadelphia, PA : Fabric Workshop and Museum ; New York, NY : MW Editions, 2019.

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95 pages : chiefly color illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

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 Gardée' (The Poorly Guarded Girl), a comic portrayal of young love between two peasants.

Alternative Title

Poorly watched girls

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Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

"This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition ... at The Fabric Workshop and Museum (October 5, 2018-February 17, 2019) curated by Susan Lubowsky Talbott, Executive Director"--Colophon.
Includes interview "Suzanne Bocanegra and Hal Foster in Conversation".

Call Number

JQE 20-454

ISBN

9780998701851
0998701858

LCCN

2019948534

OCLC

1105594667

Title

Suzanne Bocanegra : Poorly watched girls / editor: Amy Wilkins.

Publisher

Philadelphia, PA : Fabric Workshop and Museum ; New York, NY : MW Editions, 2019.

Type of Content

still image

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Added Author

Bocanegra, Suzanne, 1957- artist, interviewee.

Wilkins, Amy (Amy S.), editor.

Foster, Hal, interviewer.

Talbott, Susan Lubowsky, writer of foreword.

Fabric Workshop and Museum, host institution, issuing body.

Research Call Number

JQE 20-454

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