Read our latest blog post on Marilyn Minter’s “Pretty/Dirty” on view at the Brooklyn Museum by Isabella Kapur, Communications and Curatorial Intern.
“Minter’s work, as presented in the exhibition, has grown more abstract and stylized in its depiction of its most sensational subjects, and evolved in a world where the relationship between pornography, fashion, and art is vastly different from Minter’s 1960s origins. Where at first Minter’s focus on fashion, pornography, and amplified images of the body drew on what was presented to the artist as debased, the same ingredients now form a category of art to which Minter can identify.” –go to
drawingcenter.org and click on the lower left circle for the full post.
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Image: Marilyn Minter, Orange Crush, 2009. Enamel on metal, 108 x 180 inches. Private collection. Photograph courtesy of Brooklyn Museum.