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Lee Bontecou

Born Providence, Rhode Island, 1931. 

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Interview extract with Lee Bontecou

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LB: Because art is art and it doesn't mean whether it's woman or man. It doesn't matter. And it's just, like, another thing to have to fight.

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MT: Isn't that a supremely feminist statement, though? Art is art. Period. It shouldn't be woman art, man art. It's art.

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LB: Right. OK. All right. When I started, they wanted my things [to be] completely wimp feminine, and the gallery wanted to push that and I just wanted to throw up. 

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Picture taken from: vulture.com

Sculpture and Printmaker

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For us he mos significant piece was made and expose at the end of the decade of the 60’s. Using old pieces of abandoned airplanes and different industrial materials (conveyor belts, old saws, mail sacks) Bontecou made big installation that kept a big hole between them.

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In the genesis of the feminist art Bontecou became a heroine. For many people her work was representing the vagina. Lee deny it several times, at the end exhausted of the vaginal association declare to the public: "Think whatever you want about my piece." 

 

What really matters with Bontecou’s art is the autonomy and the courage in her piece. She was the first woman creating art with materials that normally nobody will expect. This is perhaps the most valuable factor about her artwork.

 

She made herself as an artist in a period in which being a woman and artist was difficult. She mixed engineer and art. Two disciplines apparently incompatibles.

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