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With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art 19721985 is the very first major academic study of this groundbreaking American art motion, including operate in painting, sculpture, collage, ceramics, setup art, and efficiency paperwork. Covering the years 1972 to 1985 and including around fifty artists from across the United States, the exhibit analyzes the Pattern and Decoration motion's bold welcome of kinds generally coded as womanly, domestic, decorative, or craft-based and believed to be unconditionally inferior to fine art.
Their work across mediums specifically evokes a pluralistic array of sources from Islamic architectural decoration to American quilts, wallpaper, Persian carpets, and domestic embroidery. Pattern and Decor artists practiced a postmodernist art of appropriation borne of love for its sources instead of the cynical detachment that ended up being de rigueur in the global art world of the 1980s.
Though little studied today, the Pattern and Design motion was institutionally acknowledged, seriously gotten, and commercially effective from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. The overwhelming prevalence of craft-based practices and unabashedly decorative perceptiveness in art of the contemporary indicate a prominent P&D tradition that is ripe for consideration. With Satisfaction: Pattern and Design in American Art 19721985 is organized by Anna Katz, Curator, with Rebecca Lowery, Assistant Manager, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
Major support is supplied by MOCA Projects Council and the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Structure. Additional assistance is provided by Clinton Hill/Allen Tran Foundation, Helen N. Lewis and Marvin B. Additional Info in Caring Memory of Marvin B. Meyer, and Thomas Solomon and Kimberly Mascola. Exhibits at MOCA are supported by the MOCA Fund for Exhibitions with significant financing offered by The Offield Household Foundation and generous financing supplied by Dr.
Holland Structure, Nathalie Marciano and Julie Miyoshi, Steven and Jerri Nagelberg, Beth Redmond, and Jonathan M. Segal through the Rhonda S. Zinner Foundation. This exhibition will travel to Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Researches, Bard College from June 26 - November 28, 2021.
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