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Wigs (Portfolio)
Accession Number:
16_00072
Creator:
Lorna Simpson ( , b. 1960)
Creator:
Simpson, Lorna
Classification:
Prints
Course:
Obler AH3165
Culture:
American
Description:
Her (Lorna Simpson) multipart work Wigs (Portfolio) is composed of lithographs, printed on felt, that depict hairpieces purchased in Brooklyn set alongside narrative fragments ranging from a psychoanalyst's interview with the mother of an avowed fetishist to lines lifted from William and Ellen Craft's 1860 slave narrative, which describes how they disguised themselves in order to escape from bondage. Simpson's wigs suggest that the look of black femininity might be altered to preserve the sensate self, a combination of visual ruse and tactile identity hinted at by the richly textured surfaces on which the images are printed. In this work it is as if the conditions affecting black women can only come into view when the body and the presumptions that accompany it are absented from the field of vision.
[Butler, Cornelia ; Schwartz, Alexandra; Modern Women: women artists at the Museum of Modern Art, 1st ed., 2010, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2010 (9780870707711) pg. 491]
Location:
New York, United States - Museum of Modern Art, (repository)
Material:
lithographs on felt, lithographed felt text panels
Measurement:
182.9 x 411.5 cm ()
Object Date:
1994 (creation)
Object Type:
prints; planographic prints; lithographs
Style Period:
Twentieth Century - Twentieth Century
Subject:
African American Art; Costume, Accessories, Hair accessories, Wigs; United States; States; New York; Brooklyn
Technique:
felt; lithography
Title:
Wigs (Portfolio)
View:
Partial View: Detail View
WorkID:
18235
Identifier:
18235_16_00072.jpg
Collection:
FAAH Collection
Record created:
Feb. 10, 2016
Last modified:
Feb. 10, 2016
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