Lisa Kokin
Girls Who Like Ice Cream Also Like Pie, 1997
Unique, signed by the artist.
1531
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Oblong octavo. (13)ff. Made almost entirely of found objects, most related to sewing and fashion, the book slyly deploys the language and imagery of heteronormative dress—what we might today identify...
Oblong
octavo. (13)ff. Made almost entirely of found objects, most related to sewing
and fashion, the book slyly deploys the language and imagery of heteronormative
dress—what we might today identify with the "tradwife" cultural
phenomenon—to comment on the fluidity of sexuality. It oscillates between
images of “average” (i.e. straight, cis) looks and relationships, as
constructed by an external social and commercial force, and the materials of
do-it-yourself clothing, suggesting that your inner life, including your
sexuality, is what you make it. Kokin's specific attention to 1950s America
highlights the consumerism and conservativism that weighed upon those who dared
be different; her aim is clearest at the second leaf, where an Oakland police
fingerprint document has been altered to the "Bureau of Orientation."
The book's readymade structure embodies exactly the sort of coy winks required
to communicate queerness in the midcentury period. Bound with a binder ring in
cardboard covers printed with instructions for assembling a dresser. Fine.
Archivally housed in clamshell box.
octavo. (13)ff. Made almost entirely of found objects, most related to sewing
and fashion, the book slyly deploys the language and imagery of heteronormative
dress—what we might today identify with the "tradwife" cultural
phenomenon—to comment on the fluidity of sexuality. It oscillates between
images of “average” (i.e. straight, cis) looks and relationships, as
constructed by an external social and commercial force, and the materials of
do-it-yourself clothing, suggesting that your inner life, including your
sexuality, is what you make it. Kokin's specific attention to 1950s America
highlights the consumerism and conservativism that weighed upon those who dared
be different; her aim is clearest at the second leaf, where an Oakland police
fingerprint document has been altered to the "Bureau of Orientation."
The book's readymade structure embodies exactly the sort of coy winks required
to communicate queerness in the midcentury period. Bound with a binder ring in
cardboard covers printed with instructions for assembling a dresser. Fine.
Archivally housed in clamshell box.
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