Jenni Sorkin: Between Abjection and the Object: Body Work in the 1990s
Lecture
CWAC 157
This talk traces a history of craft practices and object making that centered on the body as both a source of stimulus and site of contestation for addressing urgent questions of gender and sexuality during the decade when identity politics elided with a new materiality in artistic production.
Free
Presented by the Department of Art History as part of the 2019/20 Smart Lecture series supported by the Smart Family Foundation.
Image: Elaine Reichek, Navajo (1992), Mixed media.