Artistic Process and Domestic Labor in Liza Lou’s Kitchen

IF 0.3 2区艺术学 0 ART

American Art Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI:10.1086/715827

Elyse Speaks

引用次数: 1

Abstract

Liza Lou’s Kitchen (1991–96) is a work that is about domestic labor, specifically the maintenance work that happens in kitchens, and it is also about making the artist’s own labor manifest. To create this 168-square-foot installation, Lou constructed a replica kitchen and covered every surface with beads, each placed with tweezers and glue. This essay articulates how Lou’s experimental method of beadwork embeds themes of labor and time in relation to the politics of domesticity. Kitchen shares in the 1990s trends in feminist art that investigated historical conditions of labor through nontraditional artistic processes. It also employs then-familiar imagery of twentieth-century advertising, brand labels, and other visual culture to comment on the role of “housewife.” But rather than simply issuing a straight-forward critique, Kitchen reimagines the role of care—the value of attention and maintenance—through its decorative overabundance.

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丽莎楼厨房的艺术过程与家务劳动

莉莎·卢的《厨房》(1991 - 1996)是一件关于家务劳动的作品，特别是发生在厨房里的维护工作，也是一件关于艺术家自己的劳动的作品。为了创造这个168平方英尺的装置，Lou建造了一个复制的厨房，并在每个表面都覆盖了珠子，每个珠子都用镊子和胶水放置。本文阐述了娄的实验性串珠作品如何将劳动和时间的主题与家庭生活的政治联系起来。Kitchen分享了20世纪90年代女性主义艺术的趋势，通过非传统的艺术过程来研究劳动的历史条件。它还使用当时熟悉的20世纪广告、品牌标签和其他视觉文化的形象来评论“家庭主妇”的角色。但Kitchen并没有简单地提出直截了当的批评，而是通过其过多的装饰重新想象了护理的作用——关注和维护的价值。

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来源期刊

American Art ART-

CiteScore

0.20

自引率

50.00%

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期刊介绍： American Art is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to exploring all aspects of the nation"s visual heritage from colonial to contemporary times. Through a broad interdisciplinary approach, American Art provides an understanding not only of specific artists and art objects, but also of the cultural factors that have shaped American art over three centuries of national experience. The fine arts are the journal"s primary focus, but its scope encompasses all aspects of the nation"s visual culture, including popular culture, public art, film, electronic multimedia, and decorative arts and crafts. American Art embraces all methods of investigation to explore America·s rich and diverse artistic legacy, from traditional formalism to analyses of social context.