Striving for Perfection
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Title
Striving for Perfection
Description
Marilyn McMurry Annin was born in 1938, and has spent about equal thirds of her life in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa. She painted for many years, but in the 1980s, switched to sculpture, mostly in the form of rigid garments.
Annin began working in three dimensions in a casual way, experimenting with common materials found in the house or the junk yard. Her appreciation for these ordinary objects grew as she worked with them more. Her material experiments eventually led her to begin making rigid sculptured garments out of bottle caps, wire, pins, and cast-off fabric. Her garments act as metaphors for attitudes and customs in our culture and employ elements of portraiture, landscape, and satire.
Creator
Annin, Marilyn
Publisher
University of Iowa. School of Art and Art History
Date
1990
2004-09-27
Rights
Digital collection © The University of Iowa. All works are copyright the individual artist.
Relation
The Daily Palette Digital Collection
Visual Arts
http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=59
http://www.marilynannin.com/
Format
55
40
30
sculpture
Type
Still image
Sculpture (Visual work); Sculpting
Identifier
09272004.jpg
183409339
https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/