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An Unfinished Story[edit]

Regarding the "bricks & mortar" structure, I'm a little surprised that no mention is made about the end of the exhibit. An important part of its life cycle was the demolition of the house the day after the show closed. Maybe someone could find a reference for it (it's probably mentioned in every cited source already, but should be here for sure.) ---deb (talk) 08:24, 22 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

unsigned?[edit]

This article contains inaccuracies. It confuses the original Womanhouse (a 1970s exhibition of installation art by women in a "bricks and mortar" building in Los Angeles) with a later related project (collaborative works by a diverse group of women artists in a "virtual house"--linked home pages on an internet site) that pays tribute to the original.

    is this an unsigned post or what?--deb (talk) 21:35, 23 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Clarification needed tags[edit]

There are clarification tags that have been on the article for years, so I'm moving them here to see if they can get worked. Hopefully, the article will be a bit clearer in the short run.

Each woman was given a room or space of her own in a 17-room abandoned house in Hollywood, CA that was soon to be demolished.{{Clarify|reason=several spaces were used collaboratively|date=November 2011}}
The primary concern was to provide a nourishing environment for growth. In the group, laws are based on mutual aesthetic consent to encourage and support artistic needs of the group.{{Clarify|date=November 2011}}
There are some unwritten laws regarding the appropriateness of subject matter for art making: dolls, pillows, cosmetics, sanitary napkins, silk stockings, underwear, children's toys, washbasins, toasters, frying pans, refrigerator, door handles, shower caps, quilts, and satin bedspread.{{Clarify|date=November 2011}} The content of the project Womanhouse was to reverse this mythical thinking.
The initial idea to create Womanhouse was Paula Harper's.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://womanhouse.refugia.net/ |title=Womanhouse |publisher=Womanhouse.refugia.net |date= |accessdate=2014-01-12}}</ref> This is cited... but the website only says that she made the suggestion. I'm not sure that it's helpful having that short comment without more context.

--CaroleHenson (talk) 05:44, 12 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Uncited content[edit]

The relationship between biology and social roles formed the foundation of Womanhouse. Most of the rooms replicated areas of the house while at the same time challenged the activity of that room and the meaning of that activity to women's self-image through creative exaggeration.
...Paula Harper's, she helped to conceptualize the project at the beginning. Later, the conception of Womanhouse continued as a topic for discussion in one of the class meetings. During the discussion, students asked what it would be like to work out one of their closest associative memories, the home, which as a culture of women have been identified with for centuries. It has been the place where women struggled to please others. The students wondered what the home would be like if they pleased no one but themselves as women and began the project.^{[citation needed]}

--CaroleHenson (talk) 05:44, 12 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Performance in Living Room[edit]

Is Living Room the name of a particular space or just referencing a room in a house? Does it need to be capitalized? Susancsj (talk) 20:33, 7 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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