Helen Chadwick: The Oval Court Warner Marina
An illustrated exploration of Helen Chadwick's erotic, playful, and fierce 1986 installation.In 1986 the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London showed a new commission by the artist Helen Chadwick…
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An illustrated exploration of Helen Chadwick's erotic, playful, and fierce 1986 installation.In 1986 the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London showed a new commission by the artist Helen Chadwick (1954-1996). What Chadwick conceived for the ICA exhibition explored her characteristic themes--the female body (her own), the aesthetics of pleasure, the material variety and wonder of phenomena--but took them in a new, flamboyant direction. In this illustrated volume, Marina Warner examines one part of Chadwick's installation, The Oval Court. This work was erotic, playful, and fierce; it showed imaginative ambition on an exceptional scale and a unique, piquant sensibility, both raunchy and delicate.Despite the work's recognition as a feminist monument of rare intensity, it has rarely been shown or discussed since the author's catalogue essay for the
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