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American Girl Doll Catalogue
Spring 1998
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For some reason we still get American Girl catalogues in the mail every once in a while, and today’s featured two things that made me irrationally upset. First, they have two new “historical” dolls from the year 1999, which is Not History! I was born in 1998, that isn’t history yet! And they’re twins! And one of them has my birthname, but spelled differently (wrong)! And the second thing that made me upset is that they’re making 20th anniversary Wicked costumes to celebrate the show being on Broadway for 20 years! And the costumes look gorgeous! How dare they combine two of my biggest childhood special interests now that I’m a whole-ass adult? This absolutely sucks, I like desperately want those Galinda and Elphaba costumes, even though I can in no way justify buying them. So not fair!
#seriously wicked and american girl were two of my biggest special interests for such a long time#and i’m very peeved about the 1999 ‘historical’ dolls that is too recent to be ‘history’#my mom was annoyed when they came out with the 1974 historical doll when i was a kid bc that’s in her age range but at least the 70s was far#back enough in time that making a 70s doll in the early 2000s wasn’t ridiculous#but like 1999? come on! that wasn’t That long ago!#and they’re making accessories for them with the AG logo from the 90s which is cool ig but like 1999???!??#american girl
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Doing doing (that’s the Law and Order doing doing):
I think I might be turning into an American Girl profiler. Case study #1:
Dolls etc purchased at a garage sale in an upscale neighborhood. Claimed they were in storage but elastic in clothing was clearly deteriorated from heat. I think they were stored in the garage.
Dolls are all stamped Pleasant Company. Kirsten’s dress is tagged 1994; she has an artist mark. Molly has no particularly distinguishing features. #19 also has an artist mark. Interesting but not terribly illuminating.
Clothes bin that came with dolls included the following:
Culotte Dress, In line skating and Earth Day outfits introduced in 1996.
Three sets of the Blue Ribbon Riding Outfit and a set of stirrups. This outfit was in production from 1998 - 2004.
Also came with a partial kitty cat costume in production from 1998-2002
Today Girl Outfit II introduced in 1998
AG Doll Outfit III introduced in 1999
Let it Snow Sleep Set introduced in 2006.
Dolls bodies, limbs, eyes and faces are in impeccable condition. Wigs on Molly and Kirsten are not.
Several outfits are missing pieces and there is no brush included.
Profile: The American Girl in question was 9-12 in the years 1996-1999. She was a passionate equestrian (aka “horsey girl”) and enjoyed affluence/privilege. She would have ordered from the catalogue instead of in store shopping (AG Place LA did not open until 2006 and items were purchased in SoCal). She was most likely brown haired and green eyed. In addition to horse back riding, she probably also roller bladed. The collection was probably passed to a younger cousin or niece who was not so careful with the dolls’ hair or accessories, much to the chagrin of the original owner. Based on my brief interaction, I don’t believe seller was either original owner or younger recipient. Original owner is currently about 35 years old and probably wishes she’d kept her dolls!
#american girl#pleasant company#molly mcintire#kirsten larson#AGOT 19#law and order#profiling#horsey girl
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Hey look everyone, it’s the Garbage Bag Gang (TM)! Yesterday I took my rare weekday off to go to the local thrift outlet/last stop for goods from the local St. Vincent’s. This is all of the doll related stuff I found! I found Becky (redhead) first and had to have her, she’s so filthy and I can never leave a redhead behind. The cloudy eye girl is Madame Alexander’s Elise, she has her earrings and all her joints are tight. We’ll see how she cleans up. She’s wearing a nicely made top and pleated skirt with matching panties and a stole. I found Beyond Pink Barbie 1998 Happenin’ Hair Barbie right after Becky, and grabbed her for nostalgia along with Stacie. The Asian Chelsea friend was too cute to pass up.
Anddddd the best thing: 2/3 parts of AG Kit’s bed! I bought the footboard off eBay lmao, there’s no way I was going to find it (and trust me, I looked). This is one of those items I remember dreaming about after I saw it in the AG catalogue. I always wanted a trundle bed IRL too as a little ghoul, after seeing one in the catalogue as well. Someone must have donated some American Girl stuff all at once because I also found a Bitty Baby book and a hanger (I didn’t get them). The bed has bent bars but for $4 (for the whole lot) all told...I’ll take it!
Bratz (just ID’d as Bratz On Ice Vinessa 😎) has an interesting hand pose and I like her eyeshadow and brown eyes. The pink and purple pet thing is Kid Kore, yet another blast to my past. The pillows are probably for baby doll cribs but they’re perfect for the bed. Misc. clothes (Mini Bratz pants!!!) are hilarious, I love the fringe bell bottoms and the heart print dress. Also an uncut AG-size sewing pattern and a super cute pouch. I also got 12lbs of human size clothes (most for me, some for friends and family) and a vintage comforter for $15...a good thrift day indeed. 😎
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‘The Colour of children’s gender stereotypes’ - Rachel Karniol (2011)
Colour and Gender Stereotyping
Colours are often gender-stereotyped. In many countries, adults have different colour preferences for male versus female children and from birth, infants and children are exposed to colours that reflect their gender. Girls clothes, toys, and rooms in Canada (e.g., Pomerleau et al. 1990) and the United States (e.g., Shakin et al. 1985) are coloured in variations of pink, and boys clothes, toys, and rooms are coloured in variations of blue. This gender-based colour dichotomy extends to the pink versus blue congratulations cards for new born girls versus boys in the United States (Bridges 1993) and the preponderance of pink Halloween costumes for girls (Nelson 2000). Girls Lego world and Barbies social world are both dominated by pink (Falkstrm 2003) and the pink Power Ranger was the sole female in this popular children’s show. A content analysis of toy ads shows that pastels, primarily pink and purple, are used only for girls toys (Pennell 1994).
Red and green are also differentially associated with females and males. In a study of American mail-order catalogues, red was significantly more often associated with women’s, and not with men’s clothing (Frank 1990). In fact, Scherbaum and Shepherd (1987), who discuss a societal aversion to men wearing red (p. 398), found that males dressed in red were perceived by American participants as improperly attired as compared to ones in blue and as compared to women dressed in red. As for green, women prefer warm colours and green is viewed as one of the cold colours (DeLong and Cerny 1983). In fact, green is twice as prevalent in male versus female infants birth congratulations cards in the United States (Willer 2001) and an infant dressed in a blue/green striped shirt was confidently judged by American participants to be male rather than female (Leone and Robertson 1989).
In this light, colour plays an important role in children’s emergent gender stereotyping. First, reliance on colour allows children to disambiguate gender-ambiguous contexts. To elaborate, in a study with American 25 year-olds (Cherney et al. 2006a), children were shown photographs of new toys from a toy catalogue. Each toy had been classified by adults as appropriate for males, for females, neutral, or ambiguous. Colour was the primary justification in children’s classification of ambiguous toys as more appropriate for one versus the other gender. Across all toys, boys and girls did not differ in their citation of colour as the reason for classifying a given toy as more appropriate for a given gender, suggesting that even at this young age, both male and female children clearly associate colour and gender. About 95% of the children identified pink as a colour for girls whereas blue was somewhat less strongly associated with boys.
Second, colour drives stereotyped-based expectations as to the association of objects, clothing, dispositions, and activities with individuals of a given gender. For instance, as remarked by a 6-year-old American boy, if girls are going to play with trucks, they’d better play with girl trucks namely, pink ones (Gelman et al. 2004, p. 105). Even 1824-month-old North American infants associate pink with females and blue with males, as evident in a selective looking task involving violations of gender-based expectancies (Eichstedt et al. 2002). In a recent study conducted in Britain (Tenenbaum et al. 2010), drawings of figures wearing green were generally identified as boys by 6-year-old children. Similarly, Picariello et al. (1990) had 36 year old American children choose which of twin dolls, dressed in pink and blue, was associated with different adjectives (e.g., strong/gentle) and professions (firefighter/ nurse). Stereotyping increased with age, and at all ages, colour of clothing impacted children’s impressions of the weird twin.
Although there were no reported effects of gender in the above study, boys anecdotal comments are consistent with their greater distortion of gender counter-stereotypic information. Thus, a first grader insisted that a male twin, labelled clearly with a male name, but dressed in pink, was nonetheless a girl, a phenomenon Martin and Ruble (2010) discuss as identity negation. Identity negation could be interpreted as reflecting lack of gender constancy, but boys and girls of these ages do not differ in their levels of gender constancy (Karniol 2009; Levy and Carter 1989) and gender constancy at these ages does not generally predict diverse measures of gender stereotyping or gender-stereotyped behaviour (e.g., Gelman et al. 1986; Lobel and Sex Roles (2011) 65:119132 121
Menashri 1993; Serbin and Sprafkin 1986). In fact, the preponderance of evidence suggests that boys are more highly gender-stereotyped (e.g., Urberg 1982), their gender stereotypes are less flexible and more stringently held (e.g., Archer 1984; Bussey and Bandura 1999), and they engage in more distortion of gender counter-stereotypic information (e.g., Carter and Levy 1988). Maccoby (1998) contends that as part of developing a gender-based group identity, children engage in behaviours that mark themselves off from the other gender symbolically (p. 44) and that boys are more concerned with distinguishing themselves from girls than vice versa.
The rigidity of boys gender stereotypes may partially reflect the greater restrictiveness of parents with respect to gender counter-stereotypic behaviour in boys than in girls (e.g., Kane 2006). Thus, American parents hold more rigid stereotypes of males (e.g., Leaper 2002) and exert greater pressure towards conformity to gender-stereotyped behaviour in boys (Leaper and Friedman 2007). American parents apparently also actively prevent young boys from using female-stereotyped toys (e.g., there’s not many toys I wouldn’t get him, except Barbie, Kane 2006, p. 160), and female-stereotyped colours (e.g., He likes pink and I try not to encourage him to like pink just because, you know, he’s not a girl, Kane 2006, p. 160). In Spain as well, boys are apparently never dressed in pink (de Miguel 1984).
Parallel social forces may well account for girls use of a greater variety of colours. If there are fewer restrictions on girls in terms of their behaviour in gender-related domains, girls would be expected to be more flexible in their adoption of stereotypes related to gender and to colour. In fact, both male and female British children view male gender roles as more rigidly proscribed (e.g., Henshaw et al. 1992). Importantly, then, because selves are themselves gendered, they necessarily play a role in the way they structure and conceptualize the social world and the gender stereotypes that are embedded in it.
The Gender-Stereotyped Nature of Illustrations
Colouring itself can be a gendered activity. Although there are colouring books geared to both boys and girls, many colouring books are geared specifically for one gender, as found in a recent analysis of randomly selected colouring books in the United States (Fitzpatrick and McPherson 122 Sex Roles (2011) 65:119132 2010).
Colouring books for girls are dominated by fairies, princesses, and various fashion dolls whereas colouring books for boys feature vehicles, weapons, and action figures (e.g., Fitzpatrick and McPherson 2010). In Britain, colouring books featuring Disney-type princesses are generally the top selling ones for girls and ones featuring action heroes are the top sellers for boys (e.g., Lights, Camera, Action 2007). Children’s colouring books, therefore, provide rich contexts for examining children’s gender stereotypes in their use of colour as it relates to different types of illustrations.
What constitutes a gender-stereotyped illustration? Gender is often cued by name (e.g., Mickey/Minnie Mouse), appearance (including clothing and long hair, Hodge and Tripp 1986), and the gender-stereo typicality of the activities engaged in (Arthur and White 1996). The use of children’s toys in general, and those based on media figures in particular, as illustrations in children’s colouring books necessarily raises the issue of the gender-differentiation of toys. Adults use gender-related cues to differentiate the world of toys into male-appropriate and female-appropriate ones. On a scale of 19 with the end points representing appropriate only for girls or appropriate only for boys, adults rated a Mickey Mouse toy as5.01but the equivalent Minnie Mouse toy was rated 3.33 on the same scale (Campenni 1999). Similarly, the Power Rangers, Batman, and other male superheroes were rated higher than 6 on the same 9-point scale but female superheroes were rated only 3.22, (Campenni 1999), clearly showing that adults dichotomize the world of children’s toys.
The relevant question, though, is what constitutes a gender-stereotyped figure for children? Dolls, especially fashion dolls, and action figures are probably the most gender-stereotyped of all children’s toys. By 24 months, girls look more often at drawings of dolls than of cars whereas boys evidence the opposite pattern (Jadva et al. 2010). By age 3, girls select Barbies and other dolls more often to play with and by age 5, boys select more action figures to play with than do girls (Servin et al. 1999). Nelson (2005) found that boys rooms included more male figures, especially adult male action figures, whereas girls rooms included more female figures, especially baby and child figures. Of course, the content of young children’s rooms reflects both parental and children’s preferences (cf., Rheingold and Cook 1975). Yet apparently, toy purchases that reflect children’s requests are more gender-stereotyped than ones that reflect parental preferences (Fisher-Thompson 1993) and children’s Christmas toy requests are highly gender-stereotyped, with British boys asking for and getting more action figures, and girls, asking for and getting more dolls (Robinson and Morris 1986). In American children’s letters to Santa, 45% of
girls asked for Barbie dolls and 45% of boys asked for various action figures (Otnes et al. 1994).
In fact, sales of Barbie dolls and accessories account for worldwide annual sales ranging from 1 to 2 billion dollars (Casey 2008; Stanley 2005). Young girls also own other types of dolls, including Disney dolls, and Disney Princess play is also prevalent in the United States (Wohlwend 2009). As well, by 2006, approximately 120 million Bratz dolls were sold all over the world (Felgner 2006) and Bratz dolls accounted for about 40% of fashion doll sales in 2006 (McAllister 2007). The fact that Bratz did not replace Barbie in girls preferential world indicates that both types of dolls are favoured by girls. Unsurprisingly, Bratz dolls are assigned scores of 1.53 by adults, with 1 indicating only for girls and 9 indicating only for boys (Blakemore and Centers 2005).
In a parallel fashion, male action figures, which accounted for about 1.3 billion dollars in worldwide sales in 2006 (Ebenkamp 2006), are stereotypically associated with boys. In particular, both Batman and Superman are recognizable superheroes even by individuals who have never read a comic book (Bongco 2000), possibly because of their prevalence in toy stores all over the world (Fleming 1996). They have become what Macdougall (2003) calls transnational commodities. Batman in particular appears to hold a special fascination for boys (e.g., Gardner 1982), with a Warner Brothers executive commenting that Batman is literally part of the process of boyhood, especially for 611 year olds (Cooney 2004, p. 148). This fascination is evident in boys tendency to draw male superheroes, including Batman, in their spontaneous drawings (Gardner 1982; McNiff 1982). Importantly, boys play with action figures (Marsh 1999), not with dolls, denying vehemently their association with dolls (e.g., preschool boys protest Only girls play with dolls! and boys don’t have dolls, Lowe 1998, p. 218). This dissociation is also evident when in a letter to Santa a boy declares, No Barbie stuff because I’m a boy! (OCass and Clarke 2002, p. 44). In fact, playing with Barbie dolls is taken to be a sign of gender-variance (e.g., Gerouki 2010) and boys tease each other with accusations of playing with Barbie dolls (Renold 2004). In this light, then, illustrations of dolls and action figures are clearly gender-stereotyped in the eyes of children and adults.
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Events, exhibitions and things to do this week in Paris
Our selection of some interesting things to do, see and experience in Paris this week and over the weekend.
Photography
Irving Penn: Centennial
At Grand Palais, 3 Avenue du Général Eisenhower, 75008, Paris
From September 21, 2017 to October 5, 2017
The Irving Penn: Centennial exhibition of works by American photographer Irving Penn (1917-2009) is on view at the Grand Palais, Paris from September 21, 2017 to January 29, 2018. The exhibition marks the centennial of the artist’s birth and is the most comprehensive retrospective to date of his work.
Co-curated by Maria Morris Hambourg, independent curator and founding curator of The Met’s Department of Photographs, and Jeff L. Rosenheim, Joyce Frank Menschel Curator in Charge of the Department of Photographs at The Met, the exhibition features more than 200 photographs Penn made during his 70-year career as also a selection of his drawings and paintings.
The exhibition will be presented at C/O Berlin Foundation from March 24 to July 1, 2018, and at the Instituto Moreira Salles from August 21 to November 25, 2018.
The exhibition catalogue in English can be purchased here.
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Art
Continua Sphères Ensemble – exposition
At 104 CENTQUATRE, 5 rue Curial, Paris
From September 16, 2017 to November 19, 2017
Continua Sphères ENSEMBLE underlines the desire that has guided the GALLERIA CONTINUA and the CENTQUATRE from the start: to bring contemporary art to the largest audience possible. On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the GALLERIA CONTINUA in France as well as the tenth anniversary of its collective exhibition project Sphères that started there, the desire to invite a large public is augmented by the pleasure of bringing together over twenty galleries and institutions from five continents. The event Continua Sphères ENSEMBLE also allows the visitors to discover artworks that have rarely been seen in France, while also showing other forms of artistic association and production.
Sphères was born in 2007, 50 kilometres from Paris, in Boissy-le-Châtel (Seine-et-Marne). GALLERIA CONTINUA inaugurated at that time Les Moulins, its French gallery. Among the big exhibitions in the space, nine editions of Sphères have since then enabled visitors to discover many international artists. The tenth edition of Continua Sphères ENSEMBLE will be held at the Centquartre Paris. With an ambitious and generous offering, Continua Sphères ENSEMBLE brings together galleries and institutions from five continents in an unprecedented manner and, contrary to fairs, invites them to join forces rather than be in competition with each other, offering the visitors a unique experience of contemporary creation.
Artists
Ai Weiwei | Leila Alaoui | Jocelyn Anquetil & Charles Harrop-Griffiths | Iván Argote | Kader Attia | Agostino Bonalumi | Daniel Buren | Alberto Burri | Enrico Castellani | Loris Cecchini Chen Zhen | Nikhil Chopra | Berlinde De Bruyckere | Mark Dion | Sam Falls | Aurélie Ferruel & Florentine Guédon | Lucio Fontana | Lee Wan | Lu Yang | Carlos Garaicoa | Douglas Gordon | Shilpa Gupta | Subodh Gupta | Zhanna Kadyrova | Anish Kapoor | Brigitte Kowanz | Reynier Leyva Novo | Luis Enrique López-Chávez | Ahmed Mater | Moataz Nasr | OPAVIVARÁ! | Giovanni Ozzola | Michelangelo Pistoletto | Philippe Ramette | Rosângela Rennó | Jems Koko Bi | Paolo Scheggi | Andreas Schmitten | Pascale Marthine Tayou | Sislej Xhafa
Galleries and institutions 313 Art Project | 40mcube | A Gentil Carioca | ATHR Gallery | Galerie Cécile Fakhoury | Chatterjee & Lal | Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto | Collection Lambert en Avignon | GALLERIA CONTINUA | Galleria Franco Noero | Gazelli Art House | Galerie In Situ – fabienne leclerc | König Galerie | Galerie Krinzinger | mor charpentier | M WOODS | Perrotin | Tornabuoni Art | VNH Gallery | Galerie Xippas Countries
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Art
Être Pierre: Anselmo, Brassaï, Giraud and Siboni, Picasso, Zadkine, Paterson
At Museum Zadkine, 100 bis rue d'Assas, Paris
From September 29, 2017 to February 11, 2018
To commemorate the 50th death anniversary of sculptor Ossip Zadkine (1890-1967), Musée Zadkine’s exhibition Être Pierre will examine the links between stone and Zadkine and other artists. In a context marked by environmental concerns and a renewed link between humans and their ecosystem, the exhibition Être Pierre explores the dynamic role of stone through a mix of works by several generations of artists. The exhibition will also study the use of stone in these artists’ work with several media – sculpture, photography, drawings, videos and films – as well as through archaeologic objects and primitive arts.
The exhibition will include over 130 works by several artists, including Giovanni Anselmo, Brassaï, Constantin Brancusi, Claude Cahun, Marc Couturier, Paul-Armand Gette, Fabien Giraud and Raphaël Siboni, Pablo Picasso, Ossip Zadkine, Katie Paterson, Auguste Rodin, Oscar Santillan, Giuseppe Penone and Akio Suzuki.
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Exhibition
Raymond Depardon: Traverser
At Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, 2, impasse Lebouis, Paris
From September 13, 2017 to December 17, 2017
The exhibition Raymond Depardon: Traverser at the Fondation Henri-Cartier Bresson presents the works of photographer, writer and filmmaker Raymond Depardon. With a selection of over 100 prints, texts, films and documents, the exhibition hinges on four main themes: La terre natale (Homeland), Le Voyage (Journey), La Douleur (Pain) and L’enfermement (Confinement). Depardon’s writings run as a symbolic Ariadne’s thread throughout the exhibition, creating a constant dialogue between Depardon’s work over the last sixty years starting from his early beginnings at Le Garet Farm.
Art
George Segal
At Galerie Daniel Templon, 30 rue Beaubourg, Paris
From September 9, 2017 to October 28, 2017
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris will offer visitors an opportunity to rediscover the work of George Segal (1924-2000). Perhaps the most existentialist of pop artists, George Segal is known for creating environments populated by disturbing plaster figures.
Born in 1924 in New York, George Segal lived and worked in New Jersey, USA, until his death in 2000. Discovered at a collective pop art exhibition in 1962, Segal’s sculptures have since achieved international recognition for their ability to transform everyday realities into a theatre of mysterious and poetic apparitions. Among his numerous solo exhibitions were major retrospectives in 1978 at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA, in 1997 at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal (Canada), in 1998 at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C; in 2002 at Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Utsunomia, Japan and at the Hermitage State Museum in St Petersburg (Russia). Galerie Templon presented George Segal’s works for the first time in 1979 in Paris, as part of the group exhibition ‘La peinture américaine‘.
George Segal’s works play on the permeability of spaces, inviting the viewer to converse with his anonymous and motionless figures. Segal flips the hierarchies: the objects are as real and permanent as nature itself, whereas the human figures are made by hand out of one of the most fragile materials: plaster.
In the 1960s, George Segal developed a layered plaster bandage moulding technique by applying the bandages directly to the model’s body. He used this technique to reveal the evocative power of gesture and its poetic, social, erotic and political dimensions. The bandage, an instrument of healing, thus becomes a metaphor for the fragility of life, underlining a need for transcendence below the body’s empty shell.
Galerie Templon’s retrospective is the first in France in 20 years and features a comprehensive selection of the American artist’s works. Originally a realist (The Dancers, The Couple), George Segal’s works began to evolve in the 1970s, turning towards a more expansive and freer style of expression. The coloured works of the 1980s, both figurative paintings and still lives (Nude on Red Chair, Girl on Wicker Lounge), enter into a dialogue with the history of art and master painters like Cézanne and Degas. By isolating and highlighting fragments of body parts, the opulent bas-reliefs and series of erotic paintings (Hand Fragments) refer in particular to the women washing and dressing motif. In the 1990s, the artist shifted his focus to expressionist naturalism. The dual plastering/moulding technique offers greater detail on the surface (42nd Street Deli, Bus Passengers), while the fusion of sculpture and painting brings to life a plethora of artistic expressions via colour, light and emotions. The darker works (Woman Standing in Doorway, Woman Lying on a Bed) operate as a negative presence – like the inside of a mould or incarnation of a shadow.
Art
Niki de Saint Phalle: Niki de Saint Phalle's Women
At Galerie George-Phillippe & Nathalie Vallois, 36, rue de Seine, Paris
From September 8, 2017 to October 22, 2017
A new monographic exhibition at Parisian art gallery Galerie Georges-Phillippe & Nathalie Vallois focuses on one of the central themes in artist Niki de Saint Phalle’s work – the representation of the female body. The exhibition features a selection of twenty pieces from the period 1960s and 1970s, including her iconic Nanas (a series of life-sized papier maché dolls representing the ‘everywoman’) as well as her singular relief sculptures.
Niki de Saint Phalle is known for her monumental sculptures of voluptuous female bodies. Her women are big, muscular, old, fragile, with bellies ripped open, dancing light giants, matrons, brides, women giving birth. For Saint Phalle, dealing with the feminine, showing its anxieties and its revolts, its dreams, its power and its poetry, always meant showing women’s bodies. Everything women may go through is embodied in her figures which challenge the idealised representation of women’s bodies as also the rigid patriarchal notions of women’s role in society.
Design
Christian Dior: Couturier du rêve (Designer of dreams)
At Musée des Arts Décoratifs, 107 rue de Rivoli, Paris
From July 5, 2017 to January 7, 2018
Check out the lavish Christian Dior exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Celebrating the 70th anniversary of the creation of the House of Dior, this stunning exhibition follows the illustrious universe of the House of Dior’s founder and the designers who succeeded him: Yves Saint Laurent, Marc Bohan, Gianfranco Ferré, John Galliano, Raf Simons and, more recently, Maria Grazia Chiuri.
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Exhibition
David Hockney
At Centre Pompidou, Place Georges Pompidou, Paris
From June 21, 2017 to October 23, 2017
Centre Pompidou, in collaboration with London’s Tate Modern and New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, will present a monumental exhibition dedicated to David Hockney’s body of work. This comprehensive retrospective celebrates the artist’s 80th birthday and retraces his entire career through more than 200 works – paintings, photographs, engravings, video installations, drawings and printed works. These will include his most iconic paintings of swimming pools and double portraits to his more recent Yorkshire landscapes. A true celebration of this terrific artist’s long and varied career.
Exhibition
Derain, Balthus, Giacometti: A friendship in art
At Musée d'art moderne, 11 avenue du Président Wilson, Paris
From June 2, 2017 to October 29, 2017
The Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris brings together the works of three major artists of the 20th century – André Derain, Balthus and Alberto Giacometti – for an excellent exhibition, ‘Derain, Balthus, Giacometti: A friendship in art‘. The show features more than 200 works by the three artists, connected to each other by a solid friendship that was born in 1933 in Paris. The exhibition presents an original way of looking at the works of these three men, whose paintings, sculptures, maquettes and drawings seem to bear witness to a long-standing mutual admiration.
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Exhibition
Medusa: Jewellery and Taboos (Bijoux et tabous)
At Musée d'art moderne, 11 avenue du Président Wilson, Paris
From May 19, 2017 to November 5, 2017
The Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris (Museum of Modern Art, Paris) presents an extensive and beautiful exhibition titled Medusa: Bijoux et tabous (Medusa: Jewellery and Taboos) examining the cultural significance of jewellery in various societies throughout history. Whether designed by artists or high-end brands such as Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, or as symbols of ethnic identity, an allusion to fantasy or as simple pieces of jewellery, the exhibition brings together over 400 bracelets, neckpieces, rings and other improbable creations to show how a piece of jewellery can trigger attraction or repulsion depending on what it is made of or how it is worn. Through the ages, jewellery has been used to express and fortify identities, values, body and sexuality. The pieces exhibited are at times strange, at times dazzling, and at times both. With an excellent scenography, the exhibits include works by celebrated artists (Man Ray, Salvador Dalí, Alexander Calder and Niki de Saint Phalles), high-end brands and smaller, unknown or anonymous creators. The exhibition comes in partnership with the Liberace Foundation for the Performing and Creative Arts, which has loaned the iconic crystal glove worn by Michael Jackson during the Victory Tour and the neck clock worn by hip hop group Public Enemy’s Flavour Flav.
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Kiefer-Rodin
At Musée Rodin, 77 rue de Varenne, Paris
From March 14, 2017 to October 22, 2017
Musée Rodin’s exhibition Kiefer-Rodin (on view until October 22, 2017) is one of the major events organised in France to commemorate the death centenary of sculptor Auguste Rodin. This stunning show is the result of painter and sculptor Anselm Kiefer’s exploration of Rodin’s creative process, particularly his book Les Cathédrales de France (The Cathedrals of France) published in 1914 and his manner of fragmenting, reconsidering and reusing his work. The exhibition features three monumental canvases (The Cathedrals of France) with layers of oil, acrylic, emulsion and shellac piled up on them and sheets of lead (one of the artist’s preferred materials to work with) that you could stare at for hours. There are also his glass vitrines, where he combined relics of his own life with different objects and materials, crude and beautiful at the same time. Then, there are Kiefer’s books, almost sculptures, with free-flowing female nudes on stacks of cardboard.
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American Girl Doll Catalogue featuring Felicity Merriman
Spring 1998
Found on Ebay, user aurelius129
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Pleasant Company for American Girls! Catalogue featuring Addy Walker
Fall 1998
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American Girl Doll Catalogue featuring Josephina Montoya
Holiday 1998
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American Girl Josephina's Birthday Story Catalogue
1998
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American Girl Doll Catalogue
Holiday 1998
Found on toysandcollectiblesmuseum.org
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American Girl Doll Catalogue
Holiday 1998
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American Girl Doll Catalogue
Spring 1998
Found on toysandcollectiblesmuseum.org
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American Girl Doll Catalogue
Holiday 1998
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this fucking red leather/pleather/whatever vest and skirt!!! I had it for myself and my doll had the outfit shown here for her ( I still have it!) I was 9 when I got this, so I wouldn't fit into it now, but this was one of my all time favorite outfits from gradeschooo/middle school (1998-2003ish)
American Girl Doll Catalogue
Holiday 1998
Found on toysandcollectiblesmuseum.org
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American Girl Catalogue (featuring the planner that I had in middle school and was able to repurchase for my collection and my beautiful doglette Nico <3.)
1998
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the magazines in the second picture aren't the magazines in the 1st and 3rd picture
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