Ithaca College

MODERNISM'S QUEER DOMESTICITY
a chat with Tirza True Latimer
Thursday, February 8, 2018, 6 p.m.
Handwerker Gallery 

Modern art museums, with the neutral "white-box" aesthetic of the interior architecture, effectively erase the domestic origins of Modernism. By the same token, institutional conventions of display efface Modernism's debt to women collectors along with the non-normativity of such cultural brokers as Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, the Cone sisters, Mabel Dodge, Alme Spreckles and others who gave miraculous birth to Modernism in their homes.

Tirza True LAtimer is Associate Professor of Visual Studies at the California College of the Arts.  She guest-curated (with Wanda M. Corn) the exhibition "Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories," recently shown at the contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco and at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC.  Tirza True Latimer publishes work from a lesbian feminist perspective on a range of topic in the fields of visual culture, sexual culture, and criticism.

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