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PixerinaWITCHERINA. (Reviews).

Publication: Marvels & Tales
Publication Date: 01-APR-03 		Format: Online - approximately 1281 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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PixerinaWITCHERINA. Exhibition. Curated by Bill Conger. Catalogue with essays by Bill Conger, Maria Tatar, and Jan Susina. University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois, 2002 (Exhibition dates not given).

A secret language invented by Virginia Woolf to talk to her niece gives the exhibition and catalogue its name. The choice of title is apt inasmuch as this secret language was between women, it was intergenerational, and it established a pair of personae that were undomesticated. In order to write, Woolf was forced to "kill" the domestic feminine ideal that haunted her--the Victorian "Angel in the House." The pixie and witch, on the other hand, live out of doors and in the woods.

The art in the exhibition is exclusively women's art, and it is also fairy tale art, broadly defined. The text of the catalogue consists of three essays, by Bill Conger ("What Big Teeth"), Maria Tatar ("Invocations of Fairy Tales"), and Jan Susina ("Straw into Gold: The Transformative Nature of Fairy Tales and Fairy Art"). Altogether these comprise an explanatory context for the exhibition's paintings, photographs, and sculptures, elucidating the confluence of women's culture and fairy tales.

Bill Conger, who...

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