Dressing up [videorecording] / Susan Mogul. [1975]

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Dressing up [videorecording] / Susan Mogul. [1975]

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/415737586

Mogul consistently uses her own life as her subject, combining conversational humor with the pathos of everyday life, as evident in her earliest video, Dressing up. Mogul sits naked, eating corn nuts in a cramped bathroom next to a rack of clothes. As she discusses her passion for bargain hunting--an obsession inherited from her mother--she models some of her favorite purchases. Putting on one article of clothing after another, she recalls sales, bargain basements, and rock-bottom prices until she is fully dressed. The subtext of Mogul's reverse striptease is her relationship with her mother, which she explores through an improvisational personal history of her worn clothes.

1 videocassette of 1 (U-Matic) (7 min.) : sd., b&w ; 3/4 in. original.

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Mogul, Susan

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Susan Mogul (born 1949) is an American artist primarily known for her work in video art. She also works in photography, installation art, and performance art. Originally from New York City, she currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Mogul received her B.F.A. from Tufts University and Boston Museum School of Fine Arts in 1972, and later received her M.F.A. from the University of California at San Diego in 1980. In between this time, she studied at CalArts under Judy Chicago within the Fem...