Cauleen Reading Gwendolyn Brooks (Blacks, pub. 2008)

Work on Paper

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DePaul Art Museum

Name/Title

Cauleen Reading Gwendolyn Brooks (Blacks, pub. 2008)

Entry/Object ID

2016.130

Description

a woman in a light blue button down shirt and dark jeans leaning back in a chair reading a book.

Artwork Details

Medium

C-print

Context

Inspired by Linda Nochlin’s 1971 book "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?", Carrie Schneider’s series of 100 portraits, "Reading Women (2012-2014)", responds to the lack of women in the literary canon and calls women to work towards equal representation in the arts. Photographed in natural light and in their own homes, Schneider’s subjects, many of them her friends and fellow artists, read books written by other women. Schneider’s portraits disable the traditional male gaze as the women concentrate and relax on their own terms.

Acquisition

Accession

2016.130

Source or Donor

Monique Meloche Gallery

Acquisition Method

Purchase

Credit Line

Collection of DePaul Art Museum, Art Acquisition Endowment, Courtesy of the artist and Monique Meloche Gallery

Made/Created

Artist

Schneider, Carrie

Date made

2012 - 2014

Ethnography

Notes

North American United States Chicago

Edition

Edition Size

5

Edition Number

3

Lexicon

Getty AAT

Concept

portraits, visual works (works), genre pictures, feminism, culture-related concepts

Hierarchy Name

Visual Works (hierarchy name), Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)

Facet

Objects Facet, Associated Concepts Facet

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Reading, Books, Women

Dimensions

Dimension Description

sheet

Width

30 in

Length

36 in

Dimension Description

frame

Width

31-1/2 in

Depth

2 in

Length

37 in

Exhibition

DPAM Collects: Happy Little Trees and Other Recent Acquisitions

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Cultural/Historical Context

Label

Carrie Schneider (American, b. 1979) Cauleen Reading Gwendolyn Brooks (Blacks, pub. 2008), from the series Reading Women, 2012-14 C-print Collection of DePaul Art Museum, Art Acquisition Endowment Fund 2016.130 Carrie Schneider’s series, Reading Women, highlights the lack of women in the literary and artistic canons and calls for the equal representation of women as thinking, intellectual beings. Throughout the series, friends and colleagues of Schneider’s are photographed in their own homes, sitting comfortably, and reading works by female authors of their choosing. Here, previously Chicago-based experimental filmmaker, Cauleen Smith, reads Blacks by Gwendolyn Brooks, a 30- year collection of the Chicago writer’s poems, including “A Street in Bronzeville.” The author’s poetry reflected her deep love and connection to Chicago’s Black community, and most particularly to the lives of Black women.