Malraux's Screening

Artists are taking their place in art history: In the feminist work Art Herstory, Hermine Freed puts herself into famous paintings by using Blue Box studio methods. Not only does she thwart the traditional role of the woman in art history as muse and model, but in Brechtian alienation explains the production of her work to the viewer even further while she, as an Art Nouveau beauty, asks for a light for her cigarette. The garish colors, bad resolution from early color-video technology and aging tapes refer to the limits of electronic reproducibility.

Art Herstory, Hermine Freed, us 1974, 21 min

Malraux's Shoes, Dennis Adams, us 2012, 42 min