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Title
A Lesson in Civics
Creator
Rittermann, Philipp Scholz (American photographer, 1955 CE-)
Lowe, Jean (American installation artist, born 1960)
Contributor
Installation Gallery
InSITE94
Date Created and/or Issued
1994
Contributing Institution
UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
Collection
inSite Archive: Selections
Rights Information
Unknown
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Description
Paintings
Sculpture and Installations
With her project for inSITE94, San Diego artist Jean Lowe created an installation that mirrored much of her previous work as a cunning commentary on an issue relevant to the current times. At the Casa de la Cultura Municipal in Tijuana, Lowe chose to rework the interior of one classroom. Entitled "A Lesson in Civics/Una lección de civismo," the classroom was richly outfitted with elements such as school desks, books, educational charts, and posters created by the artist in painted papier-mâché that distinctly referenced the topic of civics and how we learn to relate to other species. As the artist herself said about the work, she wanted to create an environment that encouraged a rethinking of the already known. --inSITE94
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)
This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 01, Item 204)
[Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Casa de la Cultura de Tijuana
Type
image
Format
Cardboard; oil based enamel paint; papier mâché; found objects; acrylic paint on canvas
Form/Genre
installations (visual works)
sculpture (visual work)
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb62487737
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Libraries
Books
Political art
Humor
Parody
Education
Animal culture
Classrooms
Kitsch
Installations (visual works)
Sculpture (visual work)
Mexican-American border region
InSITE94
Place
Mexican-American border region

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