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...... Like Bourgeois, Nevelson was a European-born artist who spent most of her life living and working in America. She made her mark on American sculpture during the Abstract Expressionist movement. Nevelson used found objects of every day materials in her artwork. She would group together these objects, or boxes, in order to form assemblages many of which were enormous in size and scale. Nevelson passed away in New York in 1988 at the age of 89
In this essay, I will focus on one representative large-scale work from each artist. In the case of Bourgeois, I will consider her sculpture, Spider, from the National Gallery of Art. Nevelsons most famous work is her Sky Cathedral, currently in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. I will analyze the formal qualities of each of these works before moving on to a comparative analysis. Then, I will consider each works position in a wider art historical and cultural context. I intend to show how each of these two works challenges traditional notions of the feminine in positing new ideas of what it means to be female in the 20th century......

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