Hannah Wilke (birth name Arlen Hannah Butter , March 7, 1940 - January 28, 1993) [4] - American artist, sculptor, photographer. In her work she turned to the themes of feminism , sexuality and femininity [5] . During her lifetime, she actively conducted exhibitions, but her works using female sexuality were in a rather contradictory way included only in a small number of permanent collections of museums that did not seek, moreover, to acquire works of art created by participants in the feminist movement. However, after Wilke’s death, her creations were included in many permanent collections, for example, the Brooklyn Museum [6] . The Hannah Wilke Collection and Archive was created in Los Angeles in 1999 by Hannah's sister Marsie Scharlatt and her family.
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Biography
Hannah was born into a Jewish family in New York . Her grandparents emigrated to the United States from Eastern Europe.
Wilke studied and then taught art. In the 1960s, she began her journey with terracotta vulvar sculptures, which became a popular political statement in the framework of the struggle of women for equal rights [7] , and then engaged in body art , using her own body for performances . In 1974-1975, Wilke created the SOS Starificaion Object Series: An Adult Game of Mastication project. In the work of Hannah throughout her career, feminist narratives were actively used.
She died of lymphoma [4] [8] in Houston, Texas , before she reached the age of 53. The process of illness and dying was captured in the photographs by her husband and was the last work of the artist, called Intra-Venus (1992-1993). These photographs show the changes in the body and personality of the artist caused by illness and prolonged difficult treatment (chemotherapy), her transformation from a happy middle-aged woman to a suffering patient. This work was widely discussed, much was written about it. Among other things, this work raises the issue of “hiding” patients from society as if dying is a personal disgrace [9] .
Family
In 1969-1977 she was in a relationship with Klas Oldenburg .
Since 1982, she lived with a man named Donald Goddard, who became her husband in 1992, shortly before Hannah's death.
Awards and Grants
Creative Artists Public Service Grant (1973); National Endowment for the Arts Grant (four times: 1987, 1980, 1979, 1976); Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant (twice: 1992, 1987); Guggenheim Fellowship (1982), as well as the International Association of Art Critics Award (1993).
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 RKDartists
- ↑ 1 2 Hannah Wilke - 2008.
- ↑ 1 2 Benezit Dictionary of Artists - 2006. - ISBN 978-0-19-977378-7 , 978-0-19-989991-3
- ↑ 1 2 Smith, Roberta . ART VIEW; An Artist's Chronicle Of a Death Foretold , The New York Times (January 30, 1994). Date of treatment June 28, 2007.
- ↑ Hannah Wilke . Oxford Art Online . (inaccessible link)
- ↑ Brooklyn Museum: Hannah Wilke . www.brooklynmuseum.org . Date of treatment March 11, 2018.
- ↑ Buszek, Maria Elena. Our Bodies / Ourselves // Pin-up Grrrls: Feminism, Sexuality, Popular Culture. - Duke University Press , 2006. - P. 291–294. - ISBN 0-8223-3746-0 .
- ↑ Hannah Wilke (English) (unopened) ? . Guggenheim . Date of treatment December 21, 2018.
- ↑ Vine, Richard. Hannah Wilke at Ronald Feldman - New York, New York - Review of Exhibitions (English) // Art in America : magazine. - 1994. - May. Archived on October 28, 2007.