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Nancy Davidson is an American artist best known for large-scale inflatable sculptures regarded as hyper-feminized abstractions of the human female form. Bulbous and flesh-like, the sculptures resemble buttocks and breasts and employ erotic cultural signifiers in their shape and decoration. Davidson's work spans art media but centers around sculpture. It is largely post-minimal in character and described by commentators as providing a feminist counterpoint to the male-dominated, minimalist sculpture of the 1960s, as well as to cultural tropes involving bodies that the works themselves invoke. Of particular note are Davidson's use of humor and a sense of absurdity to seemingly both celebrate and subvert these tropes, inviting their investigation but without the seriousness and moralism that

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rdfs:label	نانسي ديفيدسون (ar) Nancy Davidson (fr) Nancy Davidson (artist) (en)
rdfs:comment	نانسي ديفيدسون (بالإنجليزية: Nancy Davidson)‏ هي فنانة أمريكية، ولدت في 3 نوفمبر 1943 في شيكاغو في الولايات المتحدة. (ar) Nancy Davidson, née le 3 novembre 1943 est une artiste américaine principalement connue pour ses grandes sculptures gonflables, abstractions d'un corps féminin hyper-sexualisé. (fr) Nancy Davidson is an American artist best known for large-scale inflatable sculptures regarded as hyper-feminized abstractions of the human female form. Bulbous and flesh-like, the sculptures resemble buttocks and breasts and employ erotic cultural signifiers in their shape and decoration. Davidson's work spans art media but centers around sculpture. It is largely post-minimal in character and described by commentators as providing a feminist counterpoint to the male-dominated, minimalist sculpture of the 1960s, as well as to cultural tropes involving bodies that the works themselves invoke. Of particular note are Davidson's use of humor and a sense of absurdity to seemingly both celebrate and subvert these tropes, inviting their investigation but without the seriousness and moralism that (en)
foaf:name	Nancy Davidson (en)
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name	Nancy Davidson (en)
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birth place	United States Chicago, Illinois
birth place	United States Chicago, Illinois
birth date	1943-11-03 (xsd:date)
dct:subject	Women sculptors 20th-century American women artists Living people 1943 births 20th-century American sculptors 21st-century American sculptors 21st-century American women artists School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni 20th-century American artists Northeastern Illinois University alumni 21st-century American artists University of Illinois Chicago alumni
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