Word: womb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They are for the most part medical mysteries, like the Leonard brothers, who appear to have no physical defects. Some have suffered birth injuries that produce slight brain damage, the effects of which appear years later. Most seem to be casualties of their environment, starting with the womb, their disabilities the result of a congeries of medical, cultural and economic causes...
...imitation of their pregnant mothers and in primitive rites and ancient myths. According to these myths, presumably conceived by males, Adam delivered Eve from his rib cage, Zeus gave birth to Athena out of his head, and when Semele was burned to death, Zeus seized Dionysus from her womb and sewed him up in his thigh until the infant had developed...
...very clear images of woman's situation expressed as works of art," said Judy Chicago, the program's cofounder. "In essence you walk into female reality and are forced to identify with women." Thus the linen closet showed a manikin housewife trapped amidst the laundry, and the "Womb Room" consisted of a thicket of fibers that drooped, in Chicago's words, "like an exhausted uterus." In the flesh-colored kitchen, fried eggs made from sponge were stuck to the walls and ceiling, and some of them were transmuted into human breasts-all demonstrating what their creator called...
...copulation, a consoling pat, an encounter group. Such a topic could be a romp and a tickle, and a loving touch; in fact, it's a skin game that's not even skin deep. The pri mal intimacy, Morris asserts, as if with profound originality, is the womb itself. Extracting the baby from there, he drags it through childhood's swaddlings and suckings, catalogues the intimacies of play, courtship, sex and social ritual and their substitutes from pets to waterbeds - and the only real discovery is how little we learn even from the monkeys. In his first...
...somewhere in the next ten years; the police still wear Queen Elizabeth II's monogram on their caps and the politicians seem to be dressed by Blades and Mr. Fish. The settings have the glittery, spaced-out look of a Milanese design fair-all stamped Mylar and womb-form chairs, thick glass tables, brushed aluminum and chrome, sterile perspectives of unshuttered concrete and white molded plastic. The designed artifact is to Orange what technological gadgetry was to Kubrick's 2001: a character in the drama, a mute and unblinking witness...