Mierle Laderman Ukeles

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Mierle Laderman Ukeles (* 1939 in Denver , Colorado ) is a New York City-based conceptual artist known for her feminist and maintenance-themed artworks.

Life

Ukeles studied history and international studies at Barnard College and later began her artistic training at the Pratt Institute in New York. In 1969 she wrote a manifesto entitled Maintenance Style Proposal for an Exhibition (in about maintenance art proposal for an exhibition ) directed against the role of housewives as a wife in the kitchen and declared himself as a "maintenance-artist". Maintenance, for ukeles, is the field of human activity, keeping things going, like cooking , cleaning and raising children . Her appearances in the 1970s included cleaning art galleries.

One of her best-known projects was Touch Sanitation (1970–1984), including shaking hands with more than 8,500 New York City Department of Sanitation workers and saying thanks, "Thank you for keeping New York City alive."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Don Krug: Ecological Restoration: Mierle Ukeles, Flow City . In: Art & Ecology: Perspectives and Issues . greenmuseum.org. Archived from the original on March 23, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 12, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.greenmuseum.org
  2. ^ Manifesto for Maintenance Art, 1969! Proposal for an exhibition "Care" . ( Memento of the original from August 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; English) accessed on August 12, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.feldmangallery.com
  3. ↑ Touch Sanitation: Mierle Laderman Ukeles . ( Memento of the original from March 8, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.communityarts.net
  4. ↑ Ukeles Biography . ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; English) accessed on August 12, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.feldmangallery.com
  5. ^ Jon Bird, Michael Newman: Rewriting Conceptual Art . Reaction Books, 1999, ISBN 1-86189-052-4 , pp. 114-115.
personal data
SURNAME Ukeles, Mierle Laderman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American conceptual artist and feminist
DATE OF BIRTH 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Denver , Colorado , United States