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Cubi VII

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Description: Cubi VII

TitleCubi VII

Creator nameSmith, David

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator roleSculptor

Creation date1963

Object typeSculpture

MaterialsStainless steel

Dimensions111 x 69 x 23 in. (281.9 x 175.3 x 58.4 cm)

LocationArt Institute of Chicago

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/22395

Accession number1964.1141

SubjectsSculpture, AbstractLarge-scale sculpture--20th centuryOutdoor sculpture

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Introduction: “New” Genders and Sculpture in the 1960s

Description: Abstract Bodies: Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender

Abstract Bodies: Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender

An epiphany for this project, which helped me envision its shape, occurred when I was leaving the David Smith retrospective at Tate Modern a number of years ago. One of the final rooms was the media room, and the 1964 televised interview between Smith and Frank O’Hara I discuss in Chapter 1 was being projected on a large wall. I had not intended to watch this...

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PublisherYale University Press

Copyright© 2015 by David Getsy

Related print edition pages: pp.1-41

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00005.004

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Chapter subject tags:Gender identity in artSculpture, American--20th centuryQueer theoryArt criticism--United States--History--20th centuryMinimal artAnthropomorphism in artGender nonconformitySculpture, Abstract--United States--20th century

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