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Untitled; (Rape Scene), 1973
Accession Number:
16_00075
Creator:
Ana Mendieta (Cuban performer, 1948-1985)
Creator:
Mendieta, Ana
Classification:
Performing Arts (including Performance Art)
Course:
Obler AH3165
Culture:
Cuban
Description:
The first of a series of work made in 1973 addressing violence toward women, this dramatic tableau utilized her own bloodied body as a sculptural element. Mendieta invited fellow students and faculty from the Intermedia workshop to her apartment to see the piece. Upon arrival they discovered her partially nude body tied to a table in a scene that recreated the violent rape-murder of a nursing student as it had been reported in the press.[ p. 155; p. 184; Viso, Olga M.; Ana Mendieta: Earth Body: sculpture and Performance, 1972 - 1985, Washington D.C: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, 2004 (3775713956 9783775713955)]
Location:
New York, United States - Galerie Lelong, (repository)
Material:
Lifetime color photograph from original documentation 35mm color slide. Photograph courtesy Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, Galerie Lelong
Measurement:
25.4 x 20.3 cm ()
Object Date:
1973 (creation)
Object Type:
performance art; photographs; photographs
Style Period:
Contemporary -
Subject:
Criminality; Murder; Criminality; Rape
Technique:
performance art; photography, color slide
Title:
Untitled; (Rape Scene), 1973
View:
Other: View Ana Mendieta performing in Iowa landscape; "Documentation of this early work, an unannounced performance in Iowa in which the artist used her body to stage a sceneo of violence in the Iowa lanscape, reflects her interest in engagement with the landscape a well as her fearlessness in using her own body as medium". (Guy Brett , p.184 ; Viso, Olga M.; Ana Mendieta: Earth Body: sculpture and Performance, 1972 - 1985, 1st edition, Washington D.C: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, 2004 (3775713956 9783775713955); (Documentary photographer; Lee Stalsworth: Smithsonian institute)
WorkID:
18234
Identifier:
18234_16_00075.jpg
Collection:
FAAH Collection
Record created:
Feb. 10, 2016
Last modified:
Feb. 10, 2016
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