Car Hood

by Judy Chicago

Artist Judy Chicago (USA, född 1939)

Alternate Title

Motorhuv

Date1964

MediumSprayed acrylic and lacquer on car hood

DimensionsCirka 109 x 125 x 11 cm

Classification

Sculptures

Countries

United States

Credit LineInköp 2007 (Det andra önskemuseet)

Object NumberMOM/2007/149

CollectionsThe Second Museum of Our Wishes

The artwork is not on display

About the artworkCar Hood plays on the male-dominated surfer culture in 1960s Los Angeles. Judy Chicago was one of few women on the established LA art scene. The paintwork features symmetrical patterns that were typical of the time. It also includes enigmatic symbols, such as the Celtic cross. Chicago describes the motif as a vaginal shape impaled by a phallic arrow on a masculine car hood: “A clear symbol of my state of mind at the time.” Meanwhile, she changed her name to Chicago, as a political statement. In agreement with activists such as Malcolm X and the Black Muslims, she claimed that family names contributed to enhancing an inherited, enslaved identity. Signatures, inscriptions and marks Etikett fastsatt i plexiboxen som hör till verket: When I first started my professional life , in 1963, I went to auto-body school, because I wanted to learn to spray paint, and because it seemed another way to prove my "seriousness" to the male art world. While I was there, I put my very sexually feminine images on this car hood, which in itself is quite a symbol. Judy Chicago Selected exhibition history Pop konst design (den 29 juni 2013 - den 22 september 2013) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Tid & Plats: Los Angeles 1958-1968 (2008-2009) Moderna Museet, Stockholm SPEKTAKULÄRA TIDER 60-talet ur Moderna Museets samling (den 26 december 2009 - den 27 februari 2011) Moderna Museet Malmö The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues Det andra önskemuseet : [Moderna Museet]Time & place : Los Angeles 1957-1968 : [Moderna Museet 4/10 2008-6/1 2009]Tid & plats : Los Angeles 1957-1968 : [Moderna Museet 4/10 2008-6/1 2009] Bibliography Chicago, Judy, Through the Flower: My Struggle as a Woman Artist, Doubleday, 1975, s. 36-37. Von Dutch; Roth, Ed "Big Daddy"; Williams, Robert m fl, Kustom Kulture, Laguna Art Museum, 1993, s. 90. Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000, Barron, University of California Press, 2000, s. 204. Judy Chicago, Sackler, Watson-Guptill, New York 2002, s. 23.

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