ALEXANDER AND BONIN.(Rita McBride's "White Elephant and Albatrosses" exhibition)(Brief Article)

RITAT MCBRIDE

Rita McBride's art deflates the bloated tenets of high-modernist city planning and design and exposes the culs-de-sac of once-nigh-sacred art and architectural presumptions. With Duchampian verve, McBride strips bare modernism's "bachelor"-hood, even, revealing its complicity with the spatial isolation, regimentation, and domestication of the body--particularly the female body. The real trick of her canny and droll work is that it undertakes these trenchant critiques and still manages to look spare, elegant, and appealing--which is to say, modernist.

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