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Milk-Carton Sculpture: Ruth Asawa, Geodesic Geometry, and the Maternal Counterculture of the Alvarado School Arts Workshop

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Milk-Carton Sculpture: Ruth Asawa, Geodesic Geometry, and the Maternal Counterculture of the Alvarado School Arts Workshop. / Troeller, Jordan.
In: Art Bulletin, Vol. 106, No. 3, 02.07.2024, p. 64-90.

Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

Harvard

Troeller, J 2024, 'Milk-Carton Sculpture: Ruth Asawa, Geodesic Geometry, and the Maternal Counterculture of the Alvarado School Arts Workshop', Art Bulletin, vol. 106, no. 3, pp. 64-90. https://doi.org/10.1080/00043079.2024.2357438

APA

Troeller, J. (2024). Milk-Carton Sculpture: Ruth Asawa, Geodesic Geometry, and the Maternal Counterculture of the Alvarado School Arts Workshop. Art Bulletin, 106(3), 64-90. https://doi.org/10.1080/00043079.2024.2357438

Vancouver

Troeller J. Milk-Carton Sculpture: Ruth Asawa, Geodesic Geometry, and the Maternal Counterculture of the Alvarado School Arts Workshop. Art Bulletin. 2024 Jul 2;106(3):64-90. doi: 10.1080/00043079.2024.2357438

Bibtex

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Ruth Asawa and the artist-mother at midcentury

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Anni Albers’s ‘Pliable Plane’: Writing on Architecture and the Nomadic Textile

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The Maternal in Drag: Towards a Mother-Driven Theory of Artistic Creation

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Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research

A (still) marginal modernity, or the artist as stenographer

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Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

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