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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
ClassificationSculptures
Credit LinePurchase 2007 (The Second Museum of Our Wishes)
Countries
Object NumberMOM/2007/149
CollectionsThe Second Museum of Our Wishes
The artwork is not on display
About the artwork
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 SPEKTAKULÄRA TIDER 60-talet ur Moderna Museets samling (den 26 december 2009 - den 27 februari 2011) Moderna Museet Malmö Tid & Plats: Los Angeles 1958-1968 (2008-2009) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Pop konst design (den 29 juni 2013 - den 22 september 2013) Moderna Museet, Stockholm The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues Tid & plats : Los Angeles 1957-1968 : [Moderna Museet 4/10 2008-6/1 2009]Time & place : Los Angeles 1957-1968 : [Moderna Museet 4/10 2008-6/1 2009]Det andra önskemuseet : [Moderna Museet]
Judy Chicago’s pioneering practice has shaped the development of feminist art in the United States since the 1970s. With Car Hood, Chicago appropriated a key image of the male-dominated surfer culture of 1960s Los Angeles and transformed it into a canvas for a different type of iconography. The spray-painted car hood features symmetrical patterns and includes symbols such a Celtic cross. The artist described the motif as a vaginal shape impaled by a phallic arrow on this emblem of masculinity – "a clear symbol of my state of mind at the time".
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 SPEKTAKULÄRA TIDER 60-talet ur Moderna Museets samling (den 26 december 2009 - den 27 februari 2011) Moderna Museet Malmö Tid & Plats: Los Angeles 1958-1968 (2008-2009) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Pop konst design (den 29 juni 2013 - den 22 september 2013) Moderna Museet, Stockholm The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues Tid & plats : Los Angeles 1957-1968 : [Moderna Museet 4/10 2008-6/1 2009]Time & place : Los Angeles 1957-1968 : [Moderna Museet 4/10 2008-6/1 2009]Det andra önskemuseet : [Moderna Museet]