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“Her fabric collage, which she called "femmage," looks like a garish 1980s ski jacket, and that is the point.”
“Primary document published by Schapiro clarifying femmage.”
“The use of monumental scale and patterned or decorative fabric pieces merged in the “femmage” was a strong response to a patriarchal history of art.”
“Her development of “femmage,” a conflation of textile arts and painting in which the twentieth-century collage, pioneered by Picasso in 1912, is transformed into an idiom of female empowerment, is designed to boldly confront sexist thought and dignify women.”
“Among her many awards are: Ford Foundation Grant; National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship; Guggenheim Fellowship; Skowhegan Medal for Collage (for her development of femmage); and Rockefeller Foundation Grant for Artists Residency at the Bellagio Study and Conference Center in Italy.”
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art & art historical
chiaroscuro, architrave, column, capital, corinthian, dorice, entablature, frieze, ionic, sketch, abecedarian, abstraction and 124 more...
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vocabs
to learn
fond, fuss, unhinged, syndication, mayhem, invoke, nostalgia, bizarre, blatantly, condemn, comrade, captivity and 89 more...
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Collagency ✂
Comparing images, cut-up, and mixing meaning.
clusterfuck, fungible, juxtaposition, assemblage, cut, paste, arrangement, theme, symbolism, association, amalgam, represtational and 110 more...
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Femmesque
Curious words having to do with women: positive or negative; feminine, observational, technical, weird, stupid, crass, etc. I loathe some of these words but I'm using this list as a catch-all... ev...
mittelschmerz, gynotikolobomasso..., ingenue, uxorious, hogminny, quim, suffragette, damsel, madame, parturient, testatrix, mediatrix and 188 more...
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nebraksa, ʇ�?q ʇınɹɟ, charging baby tap..., sagging, noh drama, zorro volador, dream a little dr..., ribcage, ursuline, femmage, you don't beep at..., alpenhorn and 20 more...
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rolig I would think that, if we wanted one, femmage would make a good counterpart to homage, i.e. as an artistic or literary tribute specifically to a woman as opposed to one honoring a man. Jan 3, 2009
sionnach This whole art discussion reminds me of the confusion surrounding boggart. Jan 3, 2009
thefantast Femmage (Phem-edge (but the d is silent)), a word that relates far back to 2003 in a town call Holland, Michigan, is a word that is used to describe a fair amount of epic-ness in an individual.
Femmage: A noun possessed by an individual when said individual is both awesome and unfathomably excellent in all areas of the social field.
"Roger was said to have possessed a good deal of femmage, as he was both intelligent and sociable with his fellow pirates". Sep 20, 2008
reesetee I...oh, excuse me. I didn't mean to interrupt.
*runs out* Jun 5, 2008
dontcry Oh, Yarb! *blushing* I never thought of it that way! Jun 5, 2008
yarb I disagree; a brie with the crust on could prove exquisite. It would have a certain "give" in it which would make things more risque. Of course, if you were an aggressive frommagist (or frommagiste), you would probably want to start with nothing softer than edam or gouda, and finish with a raw-boned parmesan. Jun 5, 2008
dontcry Yarb -- of course, that would be a performance art and would have to involve one of the harder cheeses... A brie would never do. Jun 5, 2008
yarb Or, frommage: the act of rubbing up against cheese for sexual pleasure. Jun 5, 2008
dontcry Frommage: a type of collage that includes cheese art produced by french women. Jun 5, 2008
whichbe A type of collage that includes textile art, traditionally produced by women. (From ArtLex) Jun 4, 2008