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621041 | Ed Templeton | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ed%20Templeton | Ed Templeton
a tour and then leaving for a few days to go to my show", describing it as "chaos in a lot of ways." In the same article, Templeton is counterposed to the "wholesome" depiction of Tony Hawk and the "sporting good stores"; instead, Templeton is associated with "teenage misfits". Templeton's painted works (and a single photograph) are featured on his Tumblr profile—maintained by the artist himself—"The Cul-de-sac of Lameness".
In 2000, Templeton's book of photography, "Teenage Smokers", won the Italian Search For Art competition and Templeton was awarded US$50,000. In both 2001 and 2011, Templeton's artwork was featured in "Juxtapoz" magazine and, in 2002, the art exhibition, "The Essential Disturbance", | 12,900 |
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was held at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, France, a show that was accompanied by a 100-page book, "The Golden Age of Neglect," published by Drago ().
Templeton is a featured artist in "Beautiful Losers", a project that consisted of several elements: a touring art exhibit, a collected art book and a feature documentary film, all of which include the work of various contemporary artists. A large section of the art in the Beautiful Losers project covers skateboarding and other urban themes. In 2003, Templeton, along with members of the Toy Machine team, skated on a variety of purpose-built structures—including a car—at the base of the Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center for the temporary showcase | 12,901 |
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of Beautiful Losers. Templeton's work and career are also subjects in the "Beautiful Losers" film.
In 2008, Templeton published "Deformer"—the culmination of eleven years of preparation and research, in which he explores the "incubator of suburban outskirts", Orange County, California; that is, the area in which he spent his formative years. A documentary film, entitled "Deformer", was also produced and released, featuring Templeton and the directorial work of Mike Mills; Mills also collaborated with Templeton for the Beautiful Losers project.
In early 2011, Templeton released a book featuring a collection of photographs, entitled "Teenage Kissers". In October 2011, Templeton explained the | 12,902 |
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origin of the project:
Unlike many photo projects, the concept was an afterthought. It’s typical for a photographer to come up with an idea or concept and then go out and shoot it. But in this case I have always shot people kissing whenever I had the chance. When curator/writer Arty Nelson called me and suggested we do a show of Teenage Kissers at the Half Gallery in NYC, he was thinking of my first book Teenage Smokers (1999). I did a quick search of my archive and realized I had more than enough to do a show. So Teenage Kissers was conceived as a sister book to Teenage Smokers. It’s the exact same size and has a very similar cover.
The Australian publication, "Curvy", which focuses on the | 12,903 |
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work of female artists, identified the collection as a favourite, in specific relation to Templeton's oeuvre, and "Curvy" contributor, Katie O, described the photographic series in the following manner: "It’s equal parts cute and gross. It’s a perfect depiction of teen romance – curiosity, infatuation, desperation to grow up, and getting in over your head. The photos are awkward and wonderful and will remind you how tricky being an adolescent was – and how glad you are it’s over."
On January 12, 2013, Templeton held an opening event for a photographic exhibition, entitled "Memory Foam", at the Roberts & Tilton gallery in Culver City, California, US. Consisting of sixty-eight photographs, the | 12,904 |
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show features Templeton's impressions of the people of Huntington Beach, California, US and ended on February 16, 2013. Actor, Neil Patrick Harris, who is reportedly an admirer of Templeton's photographic work, attended the event and clothing brand, eswic, published a video segment that was filmed at the opening.
Lucy Moore, former friend of the late London bookstore owner Claire de Rouen, selected Templeton's book "Litmus Test" (Super Labo) for a tribute to de Rouen that was featured by the "Modern Matter" magazine in March 2013. In regard to Templeton's photographic exploration of Russia, Moore explains: "Like litmus paper turning irreversibly red after it has been soaked in lemon juice, | 12,905 |
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the photographs document the way that first impressions leave indelible marks upon our memory, shaping what follows." Moore also writes that Templeton's skateboarding may be responsible for the collection's "feeling of equivalence between photographer and subject."
Templeton explained in an April 2013 interview that the Leica M6 camera (with 50 mm lens) is the camera that he primarily uses for his photographic work, but that he also likes to use the Fuji GF670. Templeton also stated that film is his preferred photographic medium and that he only uses digital photography for Instagram images. The same interview also revealed that Templeton looks for "anything that illustrates the human existence" | 12,906 |
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when shooting photographs.
## Artistic and photographic influences.
Templeton revealed his art influences in a 2012 interview for the "FVF" publication:
Peter Beard is one person that’s a photographer but also a diarist. He spent a lot of time painting on photographs. That’s been super influential. But there have been a lot of people that have painted on photographs that I have enjoyed through the years. Robert Frank is someone who’s like kind of standard in a way. But I think everyone focuses on the work from "The Americans" but there’s this whole other body after that stuff that he would do collages with his photographs and paint and use text on them and cut them up and stuff like that | 12,907 |
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... I like a lot of people that use photography in kind of non-traditional ways. With Peter Beard, that was kind of my entry as a young person. Seeing that was really eye opening, kind of like, “Woah, you can do this!” It went from that to Jim Goldberg, someone who uses all different cameras and makes collages with his photos ... David Hockney is someone who, as a photographer, someone who I have really loved and opened my eyes a lot.
# Personal life.
Templeton married his wife, Deanna Templeton, in 1991. As of 2012, he resides in Huntington Beach, California.
Templeton became a vegetarian in 1990, a vegan in 1991 and has not consumed meat or dairy products since. As of January 2013, he and | 12,908 |
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his wife maintain a blog, entitled "We Like To Eat Vegan", in which they document their reviews of vegan food establishments that they visit during their global travels.
Templeton has avoided alcohol for most of his life and does not smoke or use other recreational drugs.
# Publications.
- "Teenage Smokers." New York: Alleged, 2000. Edition of 2000 copies.
- "Deformer." New York: Alleged; Bologna, Italy: Damiani, 2008. .
- "Litmus Test." Super Labo, 2010. . Edition of 500 copies.
- "Teenage Kissers." New York: Seems, 2011. . Edition of 1000 copies.
- "Hairdos of Defiance." Deadbeat, 2018. . With an essay by Templeton, "On Mohawks". Edition of 1500 copies. Exhibition catalogue.
# Videography.
- | 12,909 |
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New Deal: "Useless Wooden Toys" (1990)
- New Deal: "1281" (1991)
- Spitfire: "Spitfire" (1993)
- Toy Machine: "Live" (1994)
- "411VM": Issue #05 (1994)
- Toy Machine: "Heavy Metal" (1995)
- "411VM": Best of Volume 2 (1995)
- Toy Machine: "Welcome to Hell" (1996)
- Sheep Shoes: "Life of Leisure" (1995)
- "411VM": Issue #17 (1996)
- "Thrasher": "Hitting the Streets" (1996)
- Daryl Grogan: "Cold Sweat" (1996)
- Toy Machine: "Jump Off A Building" (1998)
- "411VM": Issue #30 (1998)
- "411VM": Stand Strong (2001)
- Emerica: "This Is Skateboarding" (2003)
- "ON Video Magazine": Summer 2003 (2003)
- Toy Machine: "Sucking the Life" (2003)
- Toy Machine: "Berzerker" (2003)
- Toy Machine: | 12,910 |
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"Good & Evil" (2004)
- Toy Machine: "Suffer The Joy" (2006)
- Emerica: "Stay Gold" (2010)
- Toy Machine: "Brain Wash" (2010)
- Toy Machine: "The Subhumans" (2011)
# Selected contest history.
- 1st in 1990 Münster World Cup: street skateboarding
- 1st in 1995 Slam City Jam: street
# See also.
- Transgressive art
# Selected bibliography.
- Caron Thomas, "Ed Templeton: The Cemetery of Reason," S.M.A.K., 2010.
- "Ed Templeton: Deformer," Damiani, 2008.
- "Ed Templeton": "The Golden Age of Neglect", Drago., 2002.
# External links.
- Templeton's website
- Official Toy Machine website
- Ed Templeton's page on Toy Machine
- Interview with Ed Templeton on Workspiration
- Ed Templeton | 12,911 |
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Selected contest history.
- 1st in 1990 Münster World Cup: street skateboarding
- 1st in 1995 Slam City Jam: street
# See also.
- Transgressive art
# Selected bibliography.
- Caron Thomas, "Ed Templeton: The Cemetery of Reason," S.M.A.K., 2010.
- "Ed Templeton: Deformer," Damiani, 2008.
- "Ed Templeton": "The Golden Age of Neglect", Drago., 2002.
# External links.
- Templeton's website
- Official Toy Machine website
- Ed Templeton's page on Toy Machine
- Interview with Ed Templeton on Workspiration
- Ed Templeton at Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, CA
- Juxtapoz Interview: Ed Templeton, Part I
- Juxtapoz Interview: Ed Templeton, Part II
- Illustrated bibliography: Ed Templeton | 12,912 |
621056 | Krumping | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Krumping | Krumping
Krumping
Krump is a street dance popularized in the United States, characterized by free, expressive, exaggerated, and highly energetic movement. The youths who started Krump saw the dance as a way for them to escape gang life and "to express raw emotions in a powerful but non-violent way."
# Origins.
The root word "Krump" came from the lyrics of a 1990 song. It is sometimes spelled K.R.U.M.P., which is an acronym for Kingdom Radically Uplifted Mighty Praise, presenting krumping as a faith-based artform. Krump was created by two dancers: Ceasare "Tight Eyez" Willis, and Jo'Artis "Big Mijo" Ratti in South Central, Los Angeles during the early 2000s. "Clowning" is the less aggressive predecessor | 12,913 |
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to krump and was created in 1992 by Thomas "Tommy the Clown" Johnson in Compton, California. In the 1990s, Johnson and his dancers, the Hip Hop Clowns, would paint their faces and perform clowning for children at birthday parties or for the general public at other functions as a form of entertainment. In contrast, krump focuses on highly energetic battles and dramatic movements which Tommy describes as intense, fast-paced, and sharp. CBS News has compared the intensity within krump to what rockers experience in a mosh pit. "If movement were words, krump would be a poetry slam." Krump was not directly created by Tommy the Clown; however, krump did grow out of clowning. Ceasare Willis and Jo'Artis | 12,914 |
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Ratti were both originally clown dancers for Johnson but their dancing was considered too "rugged" and "raw" for clowning so they eventually broke away and developed their own style. This style is now known as Krump. Johnson eventually opened a clown dancing academy and started the Battle Zone competition at the Great Western Forum where krump crews and clown crews could come together and battle each other in front of an audience of their peers.
# Spread and influence.
David LaChapelle's documentary "Rize" explores the clowning and krump subculture in Los Angeles. He says of the movement: "What Nirvana was to rock-and-roll in the early '90s is what these kids are to hip-hop. It's the alternative | 12,915 |
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to the bling-bling, tie-in-with-a-designer corporate hip-hop thing." LaChapelle was first introduced to krump when he was directing Christina Aguilera's music video "Dirrty". After deciding to make a documentary about the dance, he started by making a short film titled "Krumped". He screened this short at the 2004 Aspen Shortsfest and used the positive reaction from the film to gain more funding for a longer version. In 2005, this longer version was released as "Rize" and screened at the Sundance Film Festival, the Auckland International Film Festival, and several other film festivals outside the United States.
Aside from "Rize", krump has appeared in several music videos including Madonna's | 12,916 |
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"Hung Up", Missy Elliott's "I'm Really Hot", The Black Eyed Peas' "Hey Mama", and Chemical Brothers "Galvanize". It is demonstrated in Skinny Puppy's "Pro-Test" video as well, which also displays several other aspects of krump- the plot thereof being based on the call-out and battle.
The dance has also appeared in the movie "" and "Stomp the Yard" , the television series "Community", and the reality dance competitions "So You Think You Can Dance", "America's Best Dance Crew". Russell Ferguson, the winner of the sixth season of "So You Think You Can Dance", is a krumper. Contestants on World of Dance B-Dash and Konkrete were krumpers (2018).The original web series "The Legion of Extraordinary | 12,917 |
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Dancers" also featured krump in season one during the fifth episode, "The Lettermakers".
Krump has since spread to many different countries around the world.
# Style.
There are 4 basic moves in krump: stomps, jabs ,chestpops, and armswings. Krump is rarely choreographed; it is almost entirely freestyle (improvisational) and is danced most frequently in "battles" or "sessions" rather than on a stage. Krump is different stylistically from other hip-hop dance styles such as Breakdancing and turfing. Krump is very aggressive and is danced upright to upbeat and fast-paced music. Despite the style, krump does not promote aggression or fighting - moves are meant to take up space and challenge other | 12,918 |
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dancers to feed off and return the energy, whereas b-boying is more acrobatic and is danced on the floor to break beats. The Oakland dance style turfing is a fusion of popping and miming that incorporates storytelling and illusion. Krump is less precise than turfing and more freestyle. Thematically, all these dance styles share common ground including their street origins, their freestyle nature, and the use of battling. These commonalities bring them together under the umbrella of street dance.
# Vocabulary.
- Battle: when competitors face off in a direct dance competition where the use of Concepts, Materials, combos, and Get off takes in place
- Biter: someone who attends sessions or watches | 12,919 |
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battles in order to feed on others' styles and originality so that they can mimic those moves later at another battle and pass them off as coming from their own inventiveness i.e. plagiarism.
- Session: when a group of Krumpers form a circle, or "cypher" in hip-hop context, and one-by-one go into the middle and freestyle.
- Buck: an adjective used to describe someone who excels in Krump. it is also used to describe one's movement to be different or out of the Foundations making it worthy for the eyes
- Live: an adjective used to describe someone raising the energy in the session or battle.
- Call-Out: when a Krumper initiates/requests a battle with another Krumper by calling them out.
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Lab: when Krumpers get together or by themselves create new concepts and/or advancing their style.
- Get-Off: when a Krumper performs a set of movements that determines that a Krumper's round is over, Usually is determined by seeing the krumper doing nothing but foundations, bang outs, or arm-swings.
- Kill-Off: when a Krumper performs a set of movements that excites the crowd to the point where the battle is over and the crowd surrounds the Krumper; the opponent is "killed off."
- Krumper: A dancer who specializes in the Art of Krump.
- Concepts: An abstract movement that helps Krumpers tell a story.
- Material: A material movement Krumpers use to show a random item to further story telling. | 12,921 |
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(i.e. pouring water on the ground and slipping.)
- Jabs: short, sharp, staccato movements when the arms extend from the chest outwards and with the same energy pulling it back.
- Stomps: Stomping the foot to the ground in a way that they Krumpers are getting their energy from the ground itself.
- Chest pop: Making an upward motion with the chest the same manner as breathing into the lungs; Krumpers usually do Chest pops for breathing in air while in a session or in a round.
- Arm Swing: Moving an arm in a swinging motion. There are two types of arm swing, Small arm swing and Big arm Swing; Small arm swings are like throwing a baseball kind of motion while Big arm swings are like using the | 12,922 |
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whole arm as the bat.
- Praise Krump: The art of Krump to religious songs; way of praising for krumpers through Krump.
- Story Line: a set of Combos performed by Krumpers to build up the Hype and the Spazz Meter to get to a moment to get off or kill off their opponent.
- Hype: The intense feeling of being swept away; usually if a Krumper does something buck or different or kills the music, the crowd is hyped up thus leading to a kill-off. Common Krump audience would think that the Hype comes from the Krumper doing his rounds but Krumpers also get their Hype and boost their Spazz Meter from the crowd.
- Spazz Meter: a term used to determine the level or extent of the Hype.
- Buck Talk: The | 12,923 |
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act of trash talking while in a Krump Battle.
# Round's Story-line (basic).
- Atmosphere: feeling the vibe of the environment and having the environment feel you presence.
- Intro: starting one's rounds; usually with small movements, sometimes used to introduce a Krumper's character or concept.
- Rounds: The round of a Krumper where he/she uses a combination of Combo's, Materials, Concepts, Foundations.
- Buckness: the part of the story line where the krumper is already Hyped up with his rounds, showing a series of Heavy or fast, or heavy and fast movements; usually done with a stance with 2 knees slightly bent while arms and feet are moving in front of the lower extremities of the body.
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Krump: the part of the story line where the krumper is doing a series of foundations, concepts, materials while in a standing stance position while arms and feet are moving in front of the upper extremities of the body.
- Liveness: the part of the story line where the krumper is doing a series of foundations, concepts, materials while body is in a bent up position while arms and feet are moving outside of the body, may it be upwards or side-wards.
- Get-off: The part of the story line where the Krumper is getting off with the feelings contained, letting out by showing repetitive movements like bang outs, jabs, redundancy, and alike.
- Kill-Off: when a Krumper performs a set of movements that | 12,925 |
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of the body.
- Liveness: the part of the story line where the krumper is doing a series of foundations, concepts, materials while body is in a bent up position while arms and feet are moving outside of the body, may it be upwards or side-wards.
- Get-off: The part of the story line where the Krumper is getting off with the feelings contained, letting out by showing repetitive movements like bang outs, jabs, redundancy, and alike.
- Kill-Off: when a Krumper performs a set of movements that excites the crowd to the point where the battle is over and the crowd surrounds the Krumper; the opponent is "killed off."
# External links.
- Street Knowledge Passed on from Big homies to lil' homies | 12,926 |
621018 | Kate Millett | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kate%20Millett | Kate Millett
Kate Millett
Katherine Murray Millett (September 14, 1934 – September 6, 2017) was an American feminist writer, educator, artist, and activist. She attended Oxford University and was the first American woman to be awarded a degree with first-class honors after studying at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She has been described as "a seminal influence on second-wave feminism", and is best known for her book "Sexual Politics" (1970), which was based on her doctoral dissertation at Columbia University. Journalist Liza Featherstone attributes previously unimaginable "legal abortion, greater professional equality between the sexes, and a sexual freedom" being made possible partially due to Millett's efforts.
The | 12,927 |
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feminist, human rights, peace, civil rights, and anti-psychiatry movements were some of Millett's principal causes. Her books were motivated by her activism, such as woman's rights and mental health reform, and several were autobiographical memoirs that explored her sexuality, mental health, and relationships. In the 1960s and 1970s, Millett taught at Waseda University, Bryn Mawr College, Barnard College, and the University of California, Berkeley. Some of her later written works are "The Politics of Cruelty" (1994), about state-sanctioned torture in many countries, and "Mother Millett" (2001), a book about her relationship with her mother. Between 2011 and 2013, she won the Lambda Pioneer Award | 12,928 |
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for Literature, received Yoko Ono's Courage Award for the Arts, and was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.
Millett was born and raised in Minnesota, and then spent most of her adult life in Manhattan and the Woman's Art Colony, established in Poughkeepsie, New York, which became the Millett Center for the Arts in 2012. Millett came out as a lesbian in the year the book "Sexual Politics" was published. She was married to a sculptor Fumio Yoshimura (1965 to 1985) and later, until her death in 2017, she was married to Sophie Keir.
# Early life and education.
Katherine Murray Millett was born on September 14, 1934 to James Albert and Helen (née Feely) Millett in Saint Paul, Minnesota. | 12,929 |
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According to Millett, she was afraid of her father, an engineer, who beat her. He was an alcoholic who abandoned the family when she was 14, "consigning them to a life of genteel poverty". Her mother was a teacher and insurance saleswoman. She had two sisters, Sally and Mallory; the latter was one of the subjects of "Three Lives". Of Irish Catholic heritage, Kate Millett attended parochial schools in Saint Paul throughout her childhood.
Millett graduated in 1956 magna cum laude from the University of Minnesota with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature; she was a member of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. A wealthy aunt paid for her education at St Hilda's College, Oxford gaining an | 12,930 |
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English literature first-class degree, with honors, in 1958. She was the first American woman to be awarded a degree with first-class honors having studied at St. Hilda's. After spending about 10 years as an educator and artist, Millett entered the graduate school program for English and comparative literature at Columbia University in 1968, during which she taught English at Barnard. While there, she championed student rights, women's liberation, and abortion reform. She completed her dissertation in September 1969 and was awarded her doctorate, with distinction, in March 1970.
# Career and activism.
## Early career as an artist and educator.
Millett taught English at the University of North | 12,931 |
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Carolina after graduating from Oxford University, but she left mid-semester to study art.
In New York City she worked as a kindergarten teacher and learned to sculpt and paint from 1959-61. She then moved to Japan and studied sculpture. Millett met fellow sculptor Fumio Yoshimura, had her first one-woman show at Tokyo's Minami Gallery, and taught English at Waseda University. She left Japan in 1963 and moved to New York's Lower East Side.
Millett taught English and exhibited her works of art at Barnard College beginning in 1964. She was among a group of young, radical and untenured educators who wanted to modernize women's education; Millett wanted to provide them with "the critical tools | 12,932 |
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necessary to understand their position in a patriarchal society." Her viewpoints on radical politics, her "stinging attack" against Barnard in "Token Learning", and a budget cut at the college led to her being dismissed on December 23, 1968. Her artwork was featured in an exhibit at Greenwich Village's Judson Gallery. During these years Millett became interested in the peace and Civil Rights Movement, joined the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and participated in their protests.
In 1971, Millett taught sociology at Bryn Mawr College. She started buying and restoring property that year, near Poughkeepsie, New York; this became the Women's Art Colony and Tree Farm, a community of women artists | 12,933 |
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and writers and Christmas tree farm. Two years later she was an educator at the University of California, Berkeley.
## Feminism and sexuality.
### Feminism.
Millett was a leading figure in the women's movement, or second-wave feminism, of the 1960s and 1970s. In 1966, Millett became a committee member of National Organization for Women and subsequently joined the New York Radical Women, Radicalesbians, and Downtown Radical Women organizations.
She contributed the piece "Sexual politics (in literature)" to the 1970 anthology "", edited by Robin Morgan.
She became a spokesperson for the feminist movement following the success of the book "Sexual Politics" (1970), but struggled with conflicting | 12,934 |
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perceptions of her as arrogant and elitist, and the expectations of others to speak for them, which she covered in her 1974 book, "Flying".
Millett was one of the first writers to describe the modern concept of patriarchy as the society-wide subjugation of women. Biographer Gayle Graham Yates said that "Millett articulated a theory of patriarchy and conceptualized the gender and sexual oppression of women in terms that demanded a sex role revolution with radical changes of personal and family lifestyles". Betty Friedan's focus, by comparison, was to improve leadership opportunities socially and politically and economic independence for women.
Millett wrote several books on women's lives from | 12,935 |
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a feminist perspective. For instance, in the book "The Basement: Meditations on a Human Sacrifice" (1979), completed over four years, she chronicled the torture and murder of Indianapolis teenager Sylvia Likens by Gertrude Baniszewski in 1965 that had preoccupied her for 14 years. With a feminist perspective, she explored the story of the defenseless girl and the dynamics of the individuals involved in her sexual, physical and emotional abuse. Biographer Roberta M. Hooks wrote, "Quite apart from any feminist polemics, "The Basement" can stand alone as an intensely felt and movingly written study of the problems of cruelty and submission." Millett said of the motivation of the perpetrator: "It | 12,936 |
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is the story of the suppression of women. Gertrude seems to have wanted to administer some terrible truthful justice to this girl: that this was what it was to be a woman".
Millett and Sophie Keir, a Canadian journalist, traveled to Tehran, Iran in 1979 for the Committee for Artistic and Intellectual Freedom to work for Iranian women's rights. Their trip followed actions taken by Ayatollah Khomeini's government to prevent girls from attending schools with boys, to require working women to wear veils, and not to allow women to divorce their husbands. Thousands of women attended a protest rally held at Tehran University on International Women's Day, March 8. About 20,000 women attended a march | 12,937 |
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through the city's Freedom Square; many of whom were stabbed, beaten, or threatened with acid. Millett and Keir, who had attended the rallies and demonstrations, were removed from their hotel room and taken to a locked room in immigration headquarters two weeks after they arrived in Iran. They were threatened that they might be put in jail and, knowing that homosexuals were executed in Iran, Millett also feared she might be killed when she overheard officials discuss her lesbianism. After an overnight stay, the women were put on a plane that landed in Paris. Although Millett was relieved to have arrived safely in France, she was worried about the fate of Iranian women left behind, "They can't | 12,938 |
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get on a plane. That's why international sisterhood is so important." She wrote about the experience in her 1981 book "Going to Iran".
### "Sexual Politics".
"Sexual Politics" originated as Millett's PhD dissertation and was published in 1970, the same year that she was awarded her doctorate from Columbia University. The bestselling book, a critique of patriarchy in Western society and literature, addressed the sexism and heterosexism of the modern novelists D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, and Norman Mailer and contrasted their perspectives with the dissenting viewpoint of the homosexual author Jean Genet. Millett questioned the origins of patriarchy, argued that sex-based oppression was both | 12,939 |
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political and cultural, and posited that undoing the traditional family was the key to true sexual revolution. In its first year on the market, the book sold 80,000 copies and went through seven printings and is considered to be the movement's manifesto.
As a symbol of the women's liberation movement, Millett was featured in a "Time" magazine cover story, "The Politics of Sex", which called "Sexual Politics" a "remarkable book" that provided a coherent theory about the feminist movement. Alice Neel created the depiction of Millett for the August 31, 1970 cover.
According to biographer Peter Manso, "The Prisoner of Sex" was written by Norman Mailer in response to Millett's "Sexual Politics". | 12,940 |
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""The Prisoner of Sex" is structured as a contest. His rhetoric against her prose, his charm against her earnestness, his polemic rage against her vitriolic charges. The aim is to convert the larger audience, the stronger presence as the sustaining truth. "The Prisoner of Sex" combines self parody and satire...", said Andrew Wilson, author of "Norman Mailer: An American Aesthetic".
### Sexism and sexuality.
While Millett was speaking about sexual liberation at Columbia University, a woman in the audience asked her, "Why don't you say you're a lesbian, here, openly. You've said you were a lesbian in the past." Millett hesitantly responded, "Yes, I am a lesbian". A couple of weeks later, "Time" | 12,941 |
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December 8, 1970 article "Women's Lib: A Second Look" reported that Millett admitted she was bisexual, which it said would likely discredit her as a spokesperson for the feminist movement because it "reinforce[d] the views of those skeptics who routinely dismiss all liberationists as lesbians." In response, two days later a press conference was organized by feminists Ivy Bottini and Barbara Love in Greenwich Village in which they spoke of their "solidarity with the struggle of homosexuals to attain their liberation in a sexist society" to Kate Millett and other attendees.
Millett's 1971 film "Three Lives" is a 16mm documentary made by an all-woman crew, including co-director Susan Kleckner, | 12,942 |
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cameraperson Lenore Bode, and editor Robin Mide, under the name Women's Liberation Cinema. The 70-minute film focuses on three women—Mallory Millett-Jones, the director's sister; Lillian Shreve, a chemist; and Robin Mide, an artist—reminiscing about their lives. Vincent Canby, "The New York Times" art critic, wrote: ""Three Lives" is a good, simple movie in that it can't be bothered to call attention to itself, only to its three subjects, and to how they grew in the same male-dominated society that Miss Millett, in her "Sexual Politics", so systematically tore apart, shook up, ridiculed and undermined—while, apparently, tickling it pink." It received "generally excellent reviews" following its | 12,943 |
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premiere at a New York City theater.
In her 1971 book "The Prostitution Papers", Millett interprets prostitution as residing at the core of the female's condition, exposing women's subjection more clearly than is done with marriage contracts. According to her, degradation and power, not sex, are being bought and sold in prostitution. She argues for the decriminalization of prostitution in a process directed by the sex workers themselves.
In 1974 and 1977, respectively, Millett published two autobiographical books. "Flying" (1974), a "stream-of-consciousness memoir about her bisexuality", which explores her life after the success of "Sexual Politics" in what was described in "The New York Times | 12,944 |
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Book Review" as an example of "dazzling exhibitionism". Millett captured life as she thought, experienced and lived it, in a style like a documentary film. "Sita" (1977) explores her sexuality, particularly her lesbian lover who committed suicide and the effect on Millett's personal and private life.
In an interview with Mark Blasius, Millett was sympathetic to the concept of intergenerational sex, describing age of consent laws as "very oppressive" to gay male youth in particular but repeatedly reminding the interviewer that the question cannot rest on the sexual access of older men or women to children but a rethinking of children's rights broadly understood. Millett added that "one of children's | 12,945 |
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essential rights is to express themselves sexually, probably primarily with each other but with adults as well" and that "the sexual freedom of children is an important part of a sexual revolution ... if you don't change the social condition of children you still have an inescapable inequality". In this interview, Millett criticized those who wished to abolish age of consent laws, saying the issue was not focused on children's rights but "being approached as the right of men to have sex with kids below the age of consent" and added that "no mention is made of relationships between women and girls".
Millett is featured in the feminist history film "She's Beautiful When She's Angry" (2014).
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The 1980s through 2000s.
In 1980, Millett was one of the ten invited artists whose work was exhibited in the Great American Lesbian Art Show at the Woman's Building in Los Angeles. the "Naked Ladies" sculpture, one of which was mounted on the roof of the Building. Millett was a contributor to "On the Issues" magazine, and continued writing into the early 2000s. She discussed state-sanctioned torture in "The Politics of Cruelty" (1994), bringing attention to the use of torture in many countries.
Millett was involved in the controversy resulting from her on a UK television programme called "After Dark". Actor Oliver Reed, who had been drinking during the programme, moved in on her and tried | 12,947 |
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to kiss her. Millett pushed him away but allegedly later asked for a tape of the show to entertain her friends. Throughout the programme Reed used sexist language.
Millett was also involved in prison reform and campaigns against torture. Journalist Maureen Freely wrote of Millett's viewpoint regarding activism in her later years: "The best thing about being a freewheeler is that she can say what she pleases because 'nobody's giving me a chair in anything. I'm too old, mean and ornery. Everything depends on how well you argue.
## "Mother Millett".
Kate wrote "Mother Millett" (2001) about her mother who in her later years developed several serious health problems, including a brain tumor and | 12,948 |
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hypercalcaemia. Made aware of her mother's declining health, Millett visited her in Minnesota; their visits included conversations about their relationship and outings to baseball games, museums, and restaurants. When her mother was no longer able to care for herself in her apartment, she was placed in a nursing home in St. Paul, Minnesota, which was one of Helen Millett's greatest fears. Kate visited her mother and was disturbed by the care she received and her mother's demoralized attitude. Nursing home residents who were labeled as "behavioral problems", as Helen was, were subject to forcible restraint. Helen said to Kate, "Now that you're here, we can leave."
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made to give her life, support her and raise her, Millett became a care-giver and coordinator of many daily therapies, and pushed her mother to be active. She wanted to give her "independence and dignity". In the article "Her Mother, Herself", Pat Swift wrote: "Helen Millett might have been content to go "gently into that good night"—she was after all more afraid of the nursing home than dying—but daughter Kate was having none of that. Feminist warrior, human rights activists, gay liberationist, writer and artist, Kate Millett has not gone gently through life and never hesitates to rage at anyone—friend or foe, family or the system—to right a perceived wrong. When the dignity and quality of | 12,950 |
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her ailing mother's life was at stake, this book's unfolding tale became inevitable." Even though Helen played a role in having her daughter committed to the University of Minnesota's Mayo wing, Kate had her mother removed from the nursing home and returned to her apartment, where attendants managed her care. During this period, Millett could also "bully" her mother for her lack of cultural sophistication and the amount of television she watched and could be harsh with caregivers.
## Millett Center for the Arts.
In 2012, The Women's Art Colony became a 501(c)3 non-profit organization and changed its name to the Millett Center for the Arts.
# Personal life.
## Interpersonal relationships.
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was not the "polite, middle-class girl" that many parents of her generation and social circle desired: she could be difficult, brutally honest, and tenacious. Liza Featherstone, author of "Daughterhood Is Powerful," says that these qualities helped to make her "one of the most influential radical feminists of the 1970s." They could also make for difficult interpersonal relationships. Millett wrote several autobiographical memoirs, with what Featherstone calls "brutal honesty," about herself, her husband, lovers, and family. Her relationship with her mother was strained by her radical politics, domineering personality, and unconventional lifestyle. Helen was particularly upset about examination | 12,952 |
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of her lesbianism in her books. Family relationships were further strained after she was involuntarily committed to psychiatric wards and again when she wrote "The Loony Bin Trip".
Millett focused on her mother in "Mother Millett", a book about how she was made aware by her sister Sally of the seriousness of Helen Millett's declining health and poor nursing home care. Kate removed her mother from the home and returned her to an apartment, where caregivers managed her health and comfort. In the book, "Millett writes about the situation—her mother's distance and imperiousness, her family's failure to recognize the humanity of the old and the insane—with brutal honesty. Yet she also describes | 12,953 |
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moments of forgiveness, humility and admiration." During this time, she developed a close relationship, previously inconceivable, with her mother, which she considered "a miracle and a grace, a gift." Her relationships with her sisters were troubled during this time, but they all came to support their mother's apartment-living. The suggestion of her role as the heroine in "Mother Millett", however, may have been "at the expense of her two siblings".
## Marriage.
In 1961, Millett moved to Japan and met fellow sculptor Fumio Yoshimura, the widower of a woman named Yoshiko. A Japanese native, Yoshimura studied painting at Tokyo University of the Arts. In 1963 Yoshimura and Millett left Japan | 12,954 |
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and moved to New York's Lower East Side in the Bowery district. In 1965, the couple married and during their marriage Millett said that they were "friends and lovers". She dedicated her book "Sexual Politics" to him. Author Estelle C. Jelinek says that during their marriage he "loves her, leads his own creative life, and accepts her woman lovers". In 1985, the couple divorced. At the time of her death, Millett was married to Sophie Keir.
## Mental illness.
Mental illness affected Millett's personal and professional life from 1973, when she lived with her husband in California and was an activist and teacher at the University of California, Berkeley. Yoshimura and Sally, Kate's eldest sister, | 12,955 |
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became concerned about Kate's extreme emotions. Her family claimed that she went for as many as five consecutive nights without sleep and could talk nonsensically for hours. During a screening of one of her films at University of California, Berkeley, Millett "began talking incoherently". According to her sister, Mallory Millett-Danaher, "There were pained looks of confusion in the audience, then people whispered and slowly got up to leave." Sally, who was a law student in Nebraska, signed papers to have her younger sister committed. Millett was forcefully taken and held in psychiatric facilities for ten days. She signed herself out using a release form intended for voluntary admissions. During | 12,956 |
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a visit to St. Paul, Minnesota, a couple of weeks later, her mother asked Kate to visit a psychiatrist and, based upon the psychiatrist's suggestion, signed commitment papers for Kate. She was released within three days, having won a sanity trial, due to the efforts of her friends and a "pro bono" attorney.
Following the two involuntary confinements, Millett became depressed, particularly so about having been confined without due process. While in the mental hospitals, she was given "mind-altering" drugs or restrained, depending upon whether she complied or not. She was stigmatized for having been committed and diagnosed with manic depression (now commonly called bipolar disorder). The diagnosis | 12,957 |
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affected how she was perceived by others and her ability to attain employment. In California doctors had recommended that she take lithium to manage wide manic and depression swings. Her depression became more severe when her housing in the Bowery was condemned and Yoshimura threatened divorce. To manage the depression, Millett again began taking lithium.
In 1980, with support of two friends and photojournalist Sophie Keir, Millett stopped taking lithium to improve her mental clarity, relieve diarrhea and hand tremors, and better uphold her philosophies about mental health and treatment. She began to feel alienated and was "snappish" as Keir watched for behavioral changes. Her behavior was | 12,958 |
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that of psychiatric drug withdrawal, including "mile-a-minute" speech, which turned her peaceful art colony to "a quarrelsome dystopia." Mallory Millett, having talked to Keir, tried to get her committed but was unsuccessful due to New York's laws concerning involuntary commitments.
Millett visited Ireland in the fall of 1980 as an activist. Upon her intended return to the United States, there was a delay at the airport and she extended her stay in Ireland. She was involuntarily committed in Ireland after airport security "determined from someone in New York" that she had a "mental illness" and had stopped taking lithium. While confined, she was heavily drugged. To combat the aggressive pharmaceutical | 12,959 |
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program of "the worst bin of all", she counteracted the effects of Thorazine and lithium by eating a lot of oranges or hid the pills in her mouth for later disposal. She said of the times when she was committed, "To remain sane in a bin is to defy its definition," she said.
After several days, she was found by her friend Margaretta D'Arcy. With the assistance of an Irish parliament member and a therapist-psychiatrist from Dublin, Millett was declared competent and released within several weeks. She returned to the United States, became severely depressed, and began taking lithium again. In 1986, Millett stopped taking lithium without adverse reactions. After one lithium-free year, Millett announced | 12,960 |
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the news to stunned family and friends.
Millett's involvement with psychiatry caused her to attempt suicide several times due to both damaging physical and emotional effects but also because of the slanderous nature of psychiatric labeling that affected her reputation and threatened her very existence in the world. She believed that her depression was due to grief and feeling broken. She said, "When you have been told that your mind is unsound, there is a kind of despair that takes over..." In "The Loony Bin Trip", Millett wrote that she dreaded her depressed periods:
### Views on mental illness.
Millett disputed diagnoses and labels like manic depression (bipolar disorder) and schizophrenia, | 12,961 |
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which she claimed are placed upon people who exhibit socially unacceptable behavior. "Many healthy people, she said, are 'driven to mental illness' by society's disapproval and by the 'authoritarian institution of psychiatry.' She attributed her own depression to her diagnosis, and not the other way around, writing, "When you have been told that your mind is unsound, there is a kind of despair that takes over". Millett documented her experiences in the book "The Loony Bin Trip" (1990).
Feminist author and historian Marilyn Yalom wrote that "Millett refuses the labels that would declare her insane", continuing "she conveys the paranoid terror of being judged cruelly by others for what seems | 12,962 |
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to the afflicted person to be a reasonable act."
### Activism.
Angered by institutional psychiatric practices and lenient involuntary commitment processes, Millett became an activist. With her lawyer, she changed the State of Minnesota's commitment law so that a trial is required before a person is involuntarily committed.
Millett was active in the anti-psychiatry movement. As a representative of MindFreedom International, she spoke out against psychiatric torture at the United Nations during the negotiations of the text of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2005).
In 1978, Millett became an associate of the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press (WIFP). WIFP | 12,963 |
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is an American nonprofit publishing organization. The organization works to increase communication between women and connect the public with forms of women-based media.
## Bowery redevelopment.
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Millett was involved in a dispute with the New York City authorities, who wanted to evict her from her home at 295 Bowery as part of a massive redevelopment plan. Millett and other tenants held out, but ultimately lost their battle. Their building was demolished, and the residents were relocated.
# Scholarship.
Kristan Poirot, author of "Mediating a Movement, Authorizing Discourse", says that the release of Millett's "Sexual Politics" (1970) was a pivotal event in | 12,964 |
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the second wave of the feminist movement. Although there were other important moments in the movement, like the founding of the National Organization for Women and release of "The Feminine Mystique" by Betty Friedan, it was in 1970 that the media gave greater attention to the feminist movement, first with a front page article in "The New York Times" and coverage on the three network's news programs about the Women's Strike for Equality event that summer. Millett used psychology, anthropology, the sexual revolution, and literary criticism to explain her theory of sexual politics, which is that western societies have been driven by a belief that men are superior to women. According to Poirot, | 12,965 |
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the book, which received widespread media coverage, "was considered to be the first book-length exposition of second wave radical feminist theory." Published accounts of Millett's lesbianism played a part in the fracture in the feminist movement over lesbians' role within the movement and reduced her effectiveness as a women's rights activist.
Millett wrote her autobiographical books "Flying" (1974) and "Sita" (1977) about coming out as gay, partly an important consciousness-raising activity. She realized beginning an open dialogue is important to break down the isolation and alienation that hiding in privacy can cause. She wrote in "Flying" what Alice Henry calls in her "off our backs" review | 12,966 |
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of "Sita" an "excruciating public and political 'coming out'" and its effect on her personal, political, and artistic lives. While she discussed some of her love affairs in "Flying", in "Sita" she provides insight into a lesbian love affair and her fears of being alone or inadequate. Henry writes, "Kate's transparent vulnerability and attempts to get to the root of herself and grasp her lover are typical of many women who love women."
Millett recorded her visit to Iran and the demonstrations by Iranian feminists against the fundamentalist shift in Iran politics under Khomeini's government. Her book "Going to Iran", with photography by Sophie Keir (1979) is "a rare and therefore valuable eyewitness | 12,967 |
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account of a series of important developments in the history of Iranian women", albeit told from the perspective of a feminist from the western world.
Scholar Camille Paglia described Millett's scholarship as deeply flawed, declaring that "American feminism's nose dive began" when Millett achieved prominence. According to Paglia, Millett's "Sexual Politics" "reduced complex artworks to their political content and attacked famous male artists and authors for their alleged sexism," thereby sending serious academic literary appreciation and criticism into eclipse.
# Death.
Millett died in Paris on September 6, 2017 from cardiac arrest, eight days before her 83rd birthday. Her spouse, Sophie | 12,968 |
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Keir was with her at the time of her death.
# Awards and honors.
Millett won the Best Books Award for "Mother Millett" from Library Journal in 2001. In 2012, she was awarded one of that year's Courage Award for the Arts by Yoko Ono, which Ono created to "recognize artists, musicians, collectors, curators, writers—those who sought the truth in their work and had the courage to stick to it, no matter what" and "honor their work as an expression of my vision of courage". Between 2011 and 2012, she was also awarded the Lambda Pioneer Award for Literature and a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award (2012). She was honored in the summer of 2011 at a Veteran Feminists of America | 12,969 |
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gala; attendees included feminists such as Susan Brownmiller and Gloria Steinem.
In March 2013, the U.S. National Women's Hall of Fame announced that Millett was to be among the institution's 2013 inductees. Beverly P. Ryder, board of directors co-president, said that Millett was a "real pillar of the women's movement". The induction ceremony took place on October 24, 2013, at the National Women's Hall of Fame headquarters in Seneca Falls, New York.
# Works.
## Exhibitions.
Some of her exhibitions and installations are:
- 1963 – Minami Gallery, Tokyo
- 1967 – Group exhibition, "12 Evenings of Manipulation", Judson Gallery, New York City
- 1968 – "Situations", Brooklyn Community College, | 12,970 |
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New York
- 1970 – "The American Dream Goes to Pot", "The People's Flag Show," Phoenix Art Museum; Judson Memorial Church, New York
- 1972 – "Terminal Piece," Women's Interart Center, New York
- 1973 – "Small Mysteries", Womanstyle Theatre Festival, New York
- 1977 – "Naked Ladies," Los Angeles Women's Building, California
- 1977 – Solo exhibition, Andre Wauters Gallery, New York
- 1977 – "The Lesbian Body", Chuck Levitan Gallery, New York
- 1978 – "The Trial of Sylvia Likens," Noho Gallery, New York
- 1979 – "Elegy for Sita," Noho Gallery, New York
- 1979 – Women's Caucus for Art
- 1980 – Group exhibition, Great American Lesbian Art Show, Los Angeles
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Erotica", Galerie de Ville, New Orleans; Second Floor Salon
- 1981 – Solo exhibition, "Lesbian Erotica", Galerie des Femmes, Paris
- 1986 – Group exhibition, "Feminists and Misogynists", Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle
- 1988 – "Fluxus," Museum of Modern Art, New York
- 1991–1994 – Courtland Jessup Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts
- 1992 – Group exhibition, "Body Politic," La MaMa La Galleria
- 1991 – Solo exhibition, "Freedom from Captivity," Courtland Jessup Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts
- 1997 – "Kate Millett, Sculptor: The First 38 Years," Fine Arts Gallery, University of Maryland, Catonsville
- 2009 – "Black Madonna", multimedia show of 41 artists, HP Garcia Gallery, | 12,972 |
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mmes, Paris
- 1986 – Group exhibition, "Feminists and Misogynists", Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle
- 1988 – "Fluxus," Museum of Modern Art, New York
- 1991–1994 – Courtland Jessup Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts
- 1992 – Group exhibition, "Body Politic," La MaMa La Galleria
- 1991 – Solo exhibition, "Freedom from Captivity," Courtland Jessup Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts
- 1997 – "Kate Millett, Sculptor: The First 38 Years," Fine Arts Gallery, University of Maryland, Catonsville
- 2009 – "Black Madonna", multimedia show of 41 artists, HP Garcia Gallery, New York
## Books.
- Author
- Co-author
# External links.
- Guide to the Kate Millett Papers at Duke University | 12,973 |
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Naked City (band)
Naked City was an avant-garde music group led by saxophonist and composer John Zorn. Active primarily in New York City from 1988 to 1993, Naked City was initiated by Zorn as a "composition workshop" to test the limits of composition (and improvisation) in a traditional rock band lineup. Their music incorporated elements of jazz, surf, progressive rock, classical, heavy metal, grindcore, country, punk rock, and other genres.
# History.
In Naked City's characteristic early style, songs were often performed at astonishingly fast tempos, drawing on thrash metal and hardcore punk's emphasis on extreme speed. Many songs were quite brief, and typically switched musical genres every | 12,974 |
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few measures. One critic described the band's music as "jump-cutting micro-collages of hardcore, country, sleazy jazz, covers of John Barry and Ornette Coleman, brief abstract tussles — a whole city crammed into two or three minute bursts". This fast-change tendency was inspired in part by Carl Stalling — a Zorn favorite — who wrote music for many Warner Bros. cartoons, that featured frequent shifts in tempo, theme and style.
Naked City's first album was distributed under Zorn's name by Nonesuch Records and featured a Weegee photograph of a dead gangster on its cover, along with macabre illustrations by Maruo Suehiro. There was disagreement between Zorn and the label over cover art on subsequent | 12,975 |
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albums. Zorn wanted to use explicit S&M pictures, images from 19th century medical archives, and execution photographs, most notoriously of a Leng Tch'e victim; Nonesuch refused. Zorn ended his relationship with the label, releasing subsequent Naked City albums on Shimmy Disc and his own Avant and Tzadik labels.
On later releases, the band varied their stylistic approach and repertoire to include pieces from modern classical composers such as Alexander Scriabin, Claude Debussy, Charles Ives, and Olivier Messiaen, whose works are featured on the album "Grand Guignol". "Leng T'che" featured a single heavy metal music piece, over 31 minutes in length. "Torture Garden" was made up of several "hardcore | 12,976 |
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miniatures", and "Absinthe" was ambient and noise textures.
Zorn discontinued Naked City after "Absinthe" when he felt "... the need to write music for other ensembles, in other contexts, with new ideas". A brief reunion occurred in 2003 for a few shows at European jazz festivals.
# Cinematic connections.
The group covered numerous film soundtrack cuts, including work by Georges Delerue. "Heretic" was intended as the soundtrack for a film starring Karen Finley.
The tracks "Bonehead" and "Hellraiser", from "Torture Garden", are featured in the opening sequence of Michael Haneke's film "Funny Games" and its 2007 remake.
# Band members.
- John Zorn - alto saxophone
- Bill Frisell - electric | 12,977 |
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guitar
- Fred Frith - bass guitar
- Wayne Horvitz - keyboards
- Joey Baron - drums
- Yamatsuka Eye - vocals
- Live members
- Mike Patton - vocals (1991 and 2003)
- Cyro Baptista - percussion (1989)
- Carol Emanuel - harp (1989)
# Discography.
- "Naked City" (1990)
- "Torture Garden" (contains the "hardcore miniatures" that were also released on the albums "Naked City" and "Grand Guignol") (1990)
- "Grand Guignol" (1992)
- "Heretic" (1992)
- "Leng Tch'e" (1992)
- "Radio" (1993)
- "Absinthe" (1993)
- "Black Box" (contains the albums "Torture Garden" and "Leng Tch'e", originally released only in Japan) (1996)
- "" (2002)
- " (Box Set)" (2005)
- "Live in Quebec '88" (2017)
# | 12,978 |
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- Wayne Horvitz - keyboards
- Joey Baron - drums
- Yamatsuka Eye - vocals
- Live members
- Mike Patton - vocals (1991 and 2003)
- Cyro Baptista - percussion (1989)
- Carol Emanuel - harp (1989)
# Discography.
- "Naked City" (1990)
- "Torture Garden" (contains the "hardcore miniatures" that were also released on the albums "Naked City" and "Grand Guignol") (1990)
- "Grand Guignol" (1992)
- "Heretic" (1992)
- "Leng Tch'e" (1992)
- "Radio" (1993)
- "Absinthe" (1993)
- "Black Box" (contains the albums "Torture Garden" and "Leng Tch'e", originally released only in Japan) (1996)
- "" (2002)
- " (Box Set)" (2005)
- "Live in Quebec '88" (2017)
# External links.
- Naked City index | 12,979 |
621032 | Sushmita Sen | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sushmita%20Sen | Sushmita Sen
Sushmita Sen
Sushmita Sen (born 19 November 1975) is an Indian film actress and model who was crowned Femina Miss India in 1994 and she later won the Miss Universe 1994 contest at the age of 18. Sen is the first Indian woman to win the competition. Primarily known for her work in Hindi films, she has also appeared in Tamil and Bengali language films. She has won several accolades including a Filmfare Award.
She made her acting debut with the Hindi film "Dastak" in 1996. The Tamil musical "Ratchagan (1997)" was her first commercial success. She featured in supporting roles in several commercially successful films including "Sirf Tum" (1999), "Biwi No.1" (1999), "Main Hoon Na" (2004) and "Maine | 12,980 |
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Pyaar Kyun Kiya?" (2005).
# Early life.
Sen was born into a Bengali Baidya family in Hyderabad. Her parents are Shubeer Sen, a former Indian Air Force Wing Commander, and Subhra Sen, a jewelry designer and owner of a Dubai-based store. She has two siblings, a sister named Neelam and a brother named Rajeev.
She has attended Air Force Golden Jubilee Institute in New Delhi and St. Ann's High School in Secunderabad, but did not pursue higher education.
# Pageantry.
## Femina Miss India.
In 1994, as a teenager, Sen participated in the Femina Miss India contest. She won the title 'Femina Miss India', earning the right to compete at the Miss Universe 1994 contest.
## Miss Universe.
At the Miss | 12,981 |
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Universe contest, Sen ranked third overall in the preliminaries, behind Miss Colombia Carolina Gómez and Miss Greece Rea Totounzi. Sen went on to place second, fifth and third in the subsequent rounds and finally won the title and crown of Miss Universe 1994. She was the first Indian to win the title.
After the Times Group relinquished the rights to choose the Indian representative to Miss Universe, Sen's project, I Am She – Miss Universe India, took over. It ran for three years (from 2010 to 2012). In 2013, Femina was awarded the contract back.
## Miss Universe 2016.
As a celebration of 65th Miss Universe, 23 years after winning the pageant, she returned to Manila, Philippines, in January | 12,982 |
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2017, as one of the judges of the Miss Universe 2016 beauty pageant. The pageant took place at the Mall of Asia Arena, Pasay, Metro Manila, Philippines on January 30, 2017. Joining her as judges were Cynthia Bailey, Mickey Boardman, Francine LaFrak, Miss Universe 2011 Leila Lopes, and Miss Universe 1993 Dayanara Torres.
# Film career.
## 1990s.
After her reign as Miss Universe, Sushmita became an actress. Her first film "Dastak" was in 1996, in which she played the victim of a stalker, played by Sharad Kapoor. Mukul Dev starred as the lead actor. She then starred in the 1997 Tamil action film "Ratchagan". Two years later her appearance as Rupali in David Dhawan's movie "Biwi No.1" won her | 12,983 |
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the Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award in 1999. "Biwi No.1" was the second highest-grossing movie of 1999. The same year, she was also nominated for her role in "Sirf Tum" in the same category. She appeared in a dance song in the movie "Fiza", in the year 2000.
## 2000s.
She received critical acclaim and box office success for the film "Aankhen", starring opposite Arjun Rampal. The film co-starred Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar, Aditya Pancholi and Paresh Rawal. So far, her biggest hit has been the 2004 movie "Main Hoon Na", in which she starred as Shahrukh Khan's love interest. The film grossed a total of Rs 330,000,000 and was the second best selling movie of that year. Later, Sushmita | 12,984 |
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played a lawyer in "Main Aisa Hi Hoon" opposite Ajay Devgan. In 2005, she also starred in a remake of "Cactus Flower" – called "Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya?"; Sen played the lead opposite Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif. She also played the leading role in "Karma Aur Holi."
## 2010s.
In 2010, Sushmita played the role of a successful supermodel called Shimmer in "Dulha Mil Gaya"; the film was a moderate success that year. She additionally appeared in the action-comedy film "No Problem" the same year. In 2015, she starred in a Bengali drama film titled "Nirbaak".
In Sushmita's career, this was her first film in Bengali language.
# Personal life.
Sen adopted a baby girl in 2000 and a second girl in | 12,985 |
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s Flower" – called "Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya?"; Sen played the lead opposite Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif. She also played the leading role in "Karma Aur Holi."
## 2010s.
In 2010, Sushmita played the role of a successful supermodel called Shimmer in "Dulha Mil Gaya"; the film was a moderate success that year. She additionally appeared in the action-comedy film "No Problem" the same year. In 2015, she starred in a Bengali drama film titled "Nirbaak".
In Sushmita's career, this was her first film in Bengali language.
# Personal life.
Sen adopted a baby girl in 2000 and a second girl in 2010. She is currently dating Rohman Shawl, who is a fashion model.
# See also.
- List of firsts in India | 12,986 |
621047 | Three Sisters (agriculture) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Three%20Sisters%20(agriculture) | Three Sisters (agriculture)
Three Sisters (agriculture)
The Three Sisters are the three main agricultural crops of various Native American groups in North America: winter squash, maize (corn), and climbing beans (typically tepary beans or common beans). Originating in Mexico, these three crops were carried northward, up the river valleys over generations of time, far afield to the Mandan and Iroquois who, among others, used these "Three Sisters" as trade goods.
In a technique known as companion planting the three crops are planted close together. Flat-topped mounds of soil are built for each cluster of crops. Each mound is about high and wide, and several maize seeds are planted close together in the center of each mound. | 12,987 |
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In parts of the Atlantic Northeast, rotten fish or eels are buried in the mound with the maize seeds, to act as additional fertilizer where the soil is poor. When the maize is 15 cm (6 inches) tall, beans and squash are planted around the maize, alternating between the two kinds of seeds. The process to develop this agricultural knowledge took place over 5,000–6,500 years. Squash was domesticated first, with maize second and then beans being domesticated. Squash was first domesticated 8,000–10,000 years ago.
The three crops benefit from each other. The maize provides a structure for the beans to climb, eliminating the need for poles. The beans provide the nitrogen to the soil that the other | 12,988 |
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plants use, and the squash spreads along the ground, blocking the sunlight, helping prevent the establishment of weeds. The squash leaves also act as a "living mulch", creating a microclimate to retain moisture in the soil, and the prickly hairs of the vine deter pests. Corn, beans, and squash contain complex carbohydrates, essential fatty acids and all nine essential amino acids, allowing most Native American tribes to thrive on a plant-based diet.
Native Americans throughout North America are known for growing variations of Three Sisters gardens. The milpas of Mesoamerica are farms or gardens that employ companion planting on a larger scale. The Ancestral Puebloans are known for adopting | 12,989 |
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this garden design in a drier environment. The Tewa and other peoples of the Southwestern United States often included a "fourth Sister", Rocky Mountain bee plant ("Cleome serrulata"), which attracts bees to help pollinate the beans and squash.
The Three Sisters planting method is featured on the reverse of the 2009 US Sacagawea dollar.
# Cahokian, Mississippian and Mvskoke culture.
Corn, squash and beans were planted ca. 800 AD in the largest Native American city north of the Rio Grande known as Cahokia, in what is now known as the US state of Illinois, across the river from St Louis, Missouri. The Three Sisters crops were responsible for the surplus food that created an expanded population | 12,990 |
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throughout the extended Mississippi River valley and tributaries, creating the Mississippian and Mvskoke cultures that flourished from ca. 800 ce to ca. 1600 when physical contact with Spanish explorers brought European disease, death, and cultural collapse.
# Iroquois culture.
Among the Haudenosaunee, notably the Seneca, women were responsible for crop cultivation, including the 'Three Sisters'. Men had more cause to travel for extended periods of time, such as for hunting expeditions or diplomatic missions. However, men took part in the initial preparation for the planting of the 'Three Sisters' by clearing the planting ground. After a sufficient area of soil was prepared, groups of women | 12,991 |
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missions. However, men took part in the initial preparation for the planting of the 'Three Sisters' by clearing the planting ground. After a sufficient area of soil was prepared, groups of women (related to each other) took on all the planting, weeding, and harvesting.
# See also.
- Agriculture in the prehistoric Southwest
- Agroforestry
- Companion planting
- Crop rotation
- Eastern Agricultural Complex
- Intercropping
- Milpa
- Multiple cropping
- Polyculture
# External links.
- Companion Planting-Three Sisters, Old Farmer's Almanac
- Virtual Museum of Canada, The St. Lawrence Iroquoians — virtual exhibit that includes information on Iroquoian agriculture and the Three Sisters | 12,992 |
621064 | Free Kitten | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Free%20Kitten | Free Kitten
Free Kitten
Free Kitten is a supergroup composed of Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon and Pussy Galore's Julie Cafritz. Originally performing under the name "Kitten", they changed their name after receiving threats of legal action by a heavy metal singer performing under the same name. Boredoms member Yoshimi P-We eventually took up the task of drumming, and Pavement's Mark Ibold joined later on as bassist. They have released a handful of albums and singles, mainly on label Kill Rock Stars, including a remix 12" featuring DJ Spooky. They toured on 1993's Lollapalooza. A studio album, 2008's "Inherit", on Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace label, is the group's most recently available.
# External links.
- | 12,993 |
621064 | Free Kitten | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Free%20Kitten | Free Kitten
Kim Gordon and Pussy Galore's Julie Cafritz. Originally performing under the name "Kitten", they changed their name after receiving threats of legal action by a heavy metal singer performing under the same name. Boredoms member Yoshimi P-We eventually took up the task of drumming, and Pavement's Mark Ibold joined later on as bassist. They have released a handful of albums and singles, mainly on label Kill Rock Stars, including a remix 12" featuring DJ Spooky. They toured on 1993's Lollapalooza. A studio album, 2008's "Inherit", on Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace label, is the group's most recently available.
# External links.
- Kill Rock Stars band factsheet page, includes mp3 sample track | 12,994 |
621039 | Carom billiards | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carom%20billiards | Carom billiards
Carom billiards
Carom billiards, sometimes called carambole billiards or simply carambole (and in some cases used as a synonym for the game of straight rail from which many carom games derive), is the overarching title of a family of cue sports generally played on cloth-covered, pocketless tables, which often feature heated slate beds. In its simplest form, the object of the game is to score or "counts" by "" one's own off both the opponent's cue ball and the on a single shot. The invention as well as the exact date of origin of carom billiards is somewhat obscure but is thought to be traceable to 18th-century France.
There is a large array of carom billiards disciplines. Some of the more prevalent | 12,995 |
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today and historically are (chronologically by apparent date of development): "straight rail", "cushion caroms", "balkline", "three-cushion billiards" and "artistic billiards". There are many other carom billiards games, predominantly intermediary or offshoot games combining elements of those already listed, such as the "champion's game", an intermediary game between straight rail and balkline, as well as games which are hybrids of carom billiards and pocket billiards, such as "English billiards" played on a snooker table and its descendant games, "American four-ball billiards", and "cowboy pool".
Carom billiards is considered obscure in the United States (being historically supplanted by pocket | 12,996 |
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billiards), but are more popular in Europe, particularly France, where it originated. It is also popular in Asian countries, including Japan, the Philippines, South Korea and Vietnam.
# Etymology.
The word "carom", which simply means any strike and rebound, was in use in reference to billiards by at least 1779, sometimes spelled "carrom". Sources differ on the origin. It has been pegged variously as a shortening of the Spanish and Portuguese word "carambola", or the French word "carambole", which are used to describe the red object ball. Some etymologists have suggested that "carambola", in turn, was derived from a yellow-to-orange, tropical Asian fruit also known in Portuguese as a "carambola" | 12,997 |
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(which was a corruption of the original name of the fruit, "karambal" in the Marathi language of India), also known as star fruit. But this may simply be folk etymology, as the fruit bears no resemblance to a billiard ball, and there is no direct evidence for such a derivation.
In modern French, the word "" means 'successive collision', currently used mainly in reference to or shots in billiards, and to multiple-vehicle car crashes.
# Equipment.
## Cloth.
Cloth has been used to cover billiards tables since the 15th century. The predecessor company of the most famous maker of billiard cloth, Iwan Simonis, was formed in 1453. Most cloth made for carom billiards tables is a type of baize that | 12,998 |
621039 | Carom billiards | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carom%20billiards | Carom billiards
is dyed green, and is made from 100% worsted wool, which provides a very fast surface allowing the balls to travel with little resistance across the table . The green color of cloth was originally chosen to emulate the look of grass, and has been so colored since the 16th century. However, as in green eyeshades, the color also serves a useful function: Humans have a higher light sensitivity to green than to any other color, so green cloth permits play for longer periods of time without eye strain.
## Balls.
Modern billiard balls are made from highly resilient plastics with a typical diameter of . They are significantly larger and heavier than their pocket billiards counterparts, ranging between | 12,999 |
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