Maids of honor [videorecording] / Juan Downey. [1975]

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Maids of honor [videorecording] / Juan Downey. [1975]

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Maids of honor is artist Juan Downey's interpretation of Velazquez's masterpiece by the same title. Through a theatrical reenactment of the painting's tableau, Downey demonstrates the effect of its complex perspectival structure on the psychological tension between subject and viewer. Voiceover narration elaborates on the painting's compositional dynamics in terms of the historical and political context of late seventeenth-century Spain. With quotations from Michel Foucault and George Kubler, as well as his own recollections of visiting the Prado, Downey incorporates critical theory, art history, and autobiography in his layered analysis.

1 videocassette of 1 (U-Matic) (20 min.) : sd., col. ; 3/4 in. original.

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