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''The Sister Chapel'' is a visual arts installation, conceived by Ilise Greenstein and created by thirteen women artists during the feminist art movement.〔Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard, ed., ''The Power of Feminist Art'' (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1994), 231-33.〕 The installation premiered in January 1978 at P.S.1 in Long Island City, New York.〔 It featured eleven panels that represented contemporary and historically significant women, deities and mythological figures, and conceptual heroic women:〔Andrew D. Hottle, ''The Art of the Sister Chapel: Exemplary Women, Visionary Creators, and Feminist Collaboration'' (Farnham, England: Ashgate Publishing, 2014), 6-7.〕 *''Bella Abzug—the Candidate'' (1976) by Alice Neel *''Betty Friedan as the Prophet'' (1976) by June Blum *''Marianne Moore'' (1977) by Betty Holliday *''Joan of Arc'' (1976) by Elsa M. Goldsmith *''Artemisia Gentileschi'' (1976) by May Stevens *''Frida Kahlo'' (1976) by Shirley Gorelick *''God'' (1977) by Cynthia Mailman *''Durga'' (1977) by Diana Kurz *''Lilith'' (1976) by Sylvia Sleigh *''Womanhero'' (1977) by Martha Edelheit *''Self-Portrait as Superwoman (Woman as Culture Hero)'' (1977–78) by Sharon Wybrants Each monumental figure occupied a nine-by-five-foot canvas in a twelve-sided space, into which viewers were invited to enter.〔 Above the eleven panels, which formed an enclosure around the viewers, was a circular abstract painted ceiling by Ilise Greenstein (1976).〔 Viewers were invited to imagine and see themselves in the company of historically significant actors in developing a new way of looking at history, culture, and themselves.〔 A tent-like fabric enclosure, designed by Maureen Connor in 1976, was never executed, although a model was constructed and shown at the premiere exhibition.〔 The nominal pun regarding the Sistine Chapel ceiling was intentional.〔Grace Glueck, "Art People," ''New York Times'', November 5, 1976.〕 As the Sistine Chapel represented an apex of global and western culture, and a realization of the patriarchal conceptualization of history, ''The Sister Chapel'' comprised an invitation for people to re-imagine familiar, often unconscious presumptions about gender roles, recognition and relations from a female perspective.〔 As Gloria Feman Orenstein explained in 1977, "This chapel, then, is not about the creation of man, but the birth of woman."〔Gloria Feman Orenstein, "The Sister Chapel—A Traveling Homage to Heroines," ''Womanart'' 1, no. 3 (Winter/Spring 1977): 12-21.〕 == References == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sister Chapel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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