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IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more.
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more.
In 2002, the cross-disciplinary artist Patricia Cronin carved a Carrara marble self-portrait with her then partner, now wife, the pioneering feminist artist Deborah Kass. Conceived in the tradition of nineteenth-century funerary sculptures, Memorial to a Marriage presents two influential feminist artists and life partners in an eternal embrace. As a powerful commentary on gender, sexuality, and marriage, it tells both a transcendent story and one that is historically and culturally significant. The work was made a decade before Cronin and Kass were granted the right to marry in their home state of New York. After creating the original marble sculpture for New York City’s historic Woodlawn Cemetery, Cronin made three bronze casts of the work.
En 2002, la artista interdisciplinaria Patricia Cronin esculpió en mármol de Carrara un autorretrato con su entonces compañera y ahora esposa, Deborah Kass, pionera del arte feminista. Siguiendo la tradición de las esculturas funerarias del siglo XIX, Memorial to a Marriage presenta a estas dos influyentes artistas feministas y compañeras de vida enlazadas en un abrazo eterno. Con un impactante comentario sobre el género, la sexualidad y el matri- monio, la obra narra una historia trascendental, de significado histórico y cultural, ya que fue realizada diez años antes de que Cronin y Kass obtuvieran el derecho de casarse en el estado de Nueva York, donde residían. Después de completar la escultura original de mármol para el histórico Cementerio de Woodlawn, en Nueva York, Cronin hizo tres versiones en bronce.