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Judy Chicago
Driving the World to Destruction
, 1988
35.35 x 46 in. (89.8 x 116.8 cm.)
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Judy Chicago
Driving the World to Destruction
, 1988
35.35 x 46 in. (89.8 x 116.8 cm.)
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Judy Chicago
Driving the World to Destruction
, 1988
35.35 x 46 in. (89.8 x 116.8 cm.)
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Judy Chicago
Driving the World to Destruction
, 1988
35.35 x 46 in. (89.8 x 116.8 cm.)
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Judy Chicago
Driving the World to Destruction
, 1988
35.35 x 46 in. (89.8 x 116.8 cm.)
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Judy Chicago
American, born 1939
Driving the World to Destruction
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1988
Judy Chicago
Driving the World to Destruction
, 1988
35.35 x 46 in. (89.8 x 116.8 cm.)
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Judy Chicago
Driving the World to Destruction
, 1988
35.35 x 46 in. (89.8 x 116.8 cm.)
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Judy Chicago
Driving the World to Destruction
, 1988
35.35 x 46 in. (89.8 x 116.8 cm.)
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Judy Chicago
Driving the World to Destruction
, 1988
35.35 x 46 in. (89.8 x 116.8 cm.)
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Judy Chicago
Driving the World to Destruction
, 1988
35.35 x 46 in. (89.8 x 116.8 cm.)
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Medium
Silkscreen
Size
35.35 x 46 in. (89.8 x 116.8 cm.)
Markings
Pencil signed, titled and dated.
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Alpha 137 Gallery
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Edition
50
Size Notes
Framed
Movement
Contemporary Art
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01/01/2021–04/14/2021 Art for Social Change: Political Prints & Multiples from the 1960s to today
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Description
This extremely rare, limited edition early silkscreen (signed and numbered from the edition of only 50) is based upon Judy Chicago's eponymous 1985 painting. Pencil signed, titled and dated. In the Me-Too era, Chicago, one of the very first self-identified feminist artists, is now having her day - one of the hottest artists in the press and art fairs. Her works, about male power, are eerily prescient. The artist herself made this observation during the 2018 Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court hearings when she posted on Instagram: "It's really sad to see my paintings come true decades after they were created" - referenced in this Artsy editorial below: "Judy Chicago's Work Reveals Toxic Masculinity." This work is elegantly floated and framed in a gorgeous wood frame with museum conservation standards.
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-judy-chicagos-work-reveals-toxic-masculinity
Below is an excellent analysis of the original painting upon which this silkscreen was made, from the website "The Art Story":
Driving the World to Destruction (1985)
"...Part of Chicago's Powerplay, a five-year-long project that occupied the artist from 1982 to 1987, Driving the World to Destruction portrays an exaggeratedly muscular male figure grasping a steering wheel—here a symbol of uncontrolled patriarchal power. In this series of drawings, paintings, cast paper reliefs, and bronze works inspired by the artist's 1982 trip to Rome, Chicago upends the tradition of the heroic nude. Rather than glorifying her subjects, depicted with the heightened musculature of Renaissance-era nudes, she critiques them, portraying them as almost cartoonish in their quest for domination. Seemingly stripped of skin, the figures are also curiously vulnerable. As with this piece here, the work's titles often include wordplay; another image is titled Power Headache. Powerplay overlapped with The Birth Project, though it marks a shift in subject matter as Chicago moved away from the female body as the sole repository of emotion..."
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