The great mother
Subtitle: women, maternity, and power in art and visual culture, 1900-2015
By: an exhitibition curated by Massimiliano Gioni ; edited by Massimiliano Gioni and Roberta Tenconi ; translations, Paul Metcalfe
Contributors: Palazzo reale di Milano; Fondazione Trussardi
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Skira Editore S.p.A.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 395
ISBN-13: 9788857228600
Subjects: Women in art; Modern Art; Exhibitions; Motherhood in art
Other titles: Women, maternity, and power in art and visual culture, 1900-2015; Grande madre. English.
Description: "Through the work by 127 international artists, The Great Mother analyzes the iconography of motherhood in the art and visual culture of the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries, from early avant-garde movements to the present. Whether as a symbol of creativity or as a metaphor for art itself, the archetype of the mother has been a central figure in the history of art, from the Venuses of the Stone Age to the “bad girls” of the postfeminist era. The more familiar version of “Mamma” has also become a stereotype closely tied to the image of Italy. Published on the occasion of the major exhibition curated by Massimiliano Gioni (artistic director of the Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan, and of the New Museum, New York), promoted by the Cultural Office of the City of Milan, conceived and produced by the Fondazione Nicola Trussardi in partnership with Palazzo Reale for Expo in Città 2015, the volume is devoted to womens power: in undertaking an analysis of the representation of motherhood, The Great Mother traces a history of womens empowerment, chronicling gender struggles, sexual politics, and clashes between tradition and emancipation through the work of some of the leading masters of the twentieth century, among which Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Umberto Boccioni, Louise Bourgeois, Frida Kahlo"--publisher's website.
Notes: "Published on the occasion of the exhibition The Great Mother, Palazzo Reale, Milan, August 26-November 15, 2015"--Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references.

Translated from the original Italian into English.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Giuliano Pisapia; title: Foreword / Filippo Del Corno; title: Foreword / Domenico Piraina; title: Introduction / Beatrice Trussardi; title: The great mother / Massimiliano Gioni; title: Mater-Materia / Lucia Re; title: Valentine de Saint-Point / Adrien Sina; title: Daughters born without mothers / Ruth Hemus; title: Our lady of desire / Calvin Tomkins; title: Gifts of women / Whitney Chadwick; title: In the name of the motherland / Guido Tintori; title: Mother scenes / Matteo Pavesi; title: The mythology of the mother / Marco Belpoliti; title: The power of the second sex / Raffaella Perna; title: Harald Szeemann's La Mamma / Pietro Rigolo; title: The other half of the avant-garde / Lea Vergine; title: The imitation game / Barbara Casavecchia.