The Feminine Mystique: Portraits of and by Women

Written by Troy Kogut Monday, 21 February 2011 22:53

Kansas City, MO - This installation, at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art features the faces of 16 engaging subjects.  The installation includes works from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a period that revolutionized the place of women in society.

Named in tribute to the late author and feminist activist, Betty Friedan, this installation explores the late 19th century, and how the ideal of the feminine was elevated, while the lives of actual women remained largely constricted and the early 20th century and the widening gap between society’s desire to maintain traditional roles for women and women’s desire to freely determine their own course in life.

Select works by Bouguereau, Berthon, Redon, Matisse, Picasso, Kollwitz, Laurencin and others are included in the installation.  Most images have not been exhibited for many years, because works in paper are particularly prone to deterioration from exposure to light.  On exhibition until 1 October, 2006.

Visit the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art at : http://www.nelson-atkins.org/

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