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15 de jun. de 2016 · Film by Eric Minh Swenson. “The power of Minter’s work is that it always resonates on two levels: surface and depth. She is keenly aware of the power of the ...
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7 de nov. de 2016 · Minter, whose first retrospective just opened at the Brooklyn Museum, repurposes imagery from beauty ads, fashion editorials, and porn, adding a layer of grit to criticize a culture that puts a premium on how women look. Scintillating photo-realistic paintings reveal rainbow-colored nails lined with dirt and diamond jewelry that drips with body fluids. Video works capture tattooed feet shoved ...
3 de jun. de 2015 · Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty at Contemporary Art Museum Houston. by Beth Secor June 3, 2015. Marilyn Minter. Pop Rocks, 2009, Enamel on metal , 9 x 15 feet, Private collection. In 1969, when Marilyn Minter was 20 or so and a junior at the University of Florida at Gainesville, she took a series of photographs of her mother, Honora Elizabeth ...
25 de ene. de 2017 · Pretty/Dirty opens with Minter’s 1969 series Mom in Mirror. The mom, in Minter’s black-and-white images, an aged woman the artist describes as a “reclusive Southern Belle,” is defined both by her liver spots and perfectly penciled-in eyebrows.
Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty is on view at the Brooklyn Museum, accompanied by this awesome monograph. Essayist Neville Wakefield writes, "The mascara, heels, sequins and eyelashes in Minter’s images might be understood to take license from Baudelaire’s vision of modernity, poised between the fleeting transience of appearance and a more ...
