Word: sargent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been admitted for decades. Its inaugural show, American Women Artists 1830-1930, consisted mainly of loans; but even so, except for some paintings by Cecilia Beaux, Romaine Brooks and, of course, O'Keeffe, it was a dull florilegium of derivative kitsch. Who would waste ten minutes on these sub-Sargent portraits, these mincing imitations of Childe Hassam, these genre scenes crawling with dimpled rosy brats, if they had not been painted by American women? And what serious artist wants gender to be the primary classification of her art? Lee Krasner did not want to be in a ghetto with "women...
...village of Havana is located in the southern part of Sargent County, one mile from the South Dakota line and 50 miles from the Minnesota on the Aberdeen branch of the Great Northern...
...been a movement which has never quite been able to set its own terms. Of late, those terms have required the movement to buck a favorite conclusion in some quarters of the popular media--namely that feminism, having attained its goals, is dead, or quite nearly so. As Sargent and her team point out, the reports of that death are greatly exaggerated...
...characters are named not as individuals, but as archetypes, each representing a different figure in the movement. There's the "Woman who writes plays," portrayed by playwright Sargent, who says she's writing the play even as it unfolds before us. She is joined by six other women representing a range of experiences: the single mother, the women's studies teacher, the anarchist, the anti-imperialist, the nun and the activist...
...About My Death In Vogue Magazine has been extended several times since the play premiered in 1985, and the theater now says the show will play "indefinitely." No matter how long the company can keep performing, it probably won't be long enough to render the show obsolete. As Sargent's character, the one writing the play as it unfolds, confesses toward the end: "I just wanted to change the entire cultural system." With such a mighty goal as this, the play will have to run a long time indeed...