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Maypole: Take No Prisoners was Spero’s final major work before her death in 2009. It synthesizes several themes that Spero explored throughout her influential, 50-year career and embraces the productive coexistence of anger and celebration. As a familiar centerpiece of traditional folk festivals, the maypole is presented as a continuation of Spero’s interest in “victimage,” a term she ...
29. Dez. 2018 · More in your face is Spero’s “Phallus Bomb” (1968), an orange-hued missile-prick pointed skyward. The centerpiece of the show, “Maypole: Take No Prisoners II” (2008) raises — literally ...
Nancy Spero was initiated by the Centre Pompidou, Paris (presented from 13 October 2010 to 10 January 2011) and adapted for the Serpentine Gallery. In conjunction with this exhibition, the Serpentine hosted a talk by Gary Indiana. Influential American writer, essayist and journalist Gary Indiana read from his latest publication To Whom It May ...
28. Apr. 2017 · Maypole: Take No Prisoners was Spero’s final major work before her death in 2009. It synthesizes several themes that Spero explored throughout her influential, 50-year career and embraces the productive coexistence of anger and celebration. As a familiar centerpiece of traditional folk festivals, the maypole is presented as a continuation of Spero’s interest in “victimage,” a term she ...
Nancy Spero is an American artist, feminist and activist whose art exposes the subjugation of women and the horrors of war. Spero returned to New York in 1964 when the Vietnam War was escalating. Horrified by the images being broadcast in the news and the extent of human suffering, she created The War Series (1966–70) to visualise and condemn the atrocities of war.
Nancy Spero ( Cleveland, Ohio, 24 de agosto de 1926 – Nueva York, 18 de octubre de 2009) fue una artista visual estadounidense pionera del arte feminista junto a autoras como Martha Rosler o Adrian Piper. Destacó por su activismo feminista y pacifista. Creó un lenguaje visual con el que rompió con las convenciones artísticas de su tiempo.
4. Mai 2017 · "It's horrific," Nancy Spero (1926–2009) told an interviewer with "Art21," "trying to show the insanity and brutality of war." She was speaking about Maypole: Take No Prisoners, her installation ...
