Inviolable Habits

Inviolable Habits is intended to illustrate what the artist considered a common thread between brides, nuns, and sex workers. Represented by die cut tabs with a found photograph of a nun’s face open to reveal religious text and images of a scantily clad “pornographic” model representing the sex worker. The author draws parallels, starting with its title, between sexual innuendos, both religious and realized, and questions the aim of prayers such as “blood of Jesus wash me” and “love of Jesus inflame me.”

 

 

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University of Delaware, Rochester Institute of Technology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Duke University, Montclair State University, University of Wisconsin (Milwaukee), Cleveland Institute of Art, Mills College, University of California (Los Angeles), University of San Francisco, University of Louisville, Newark Public Library, University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill), Temple University, Texas Women's University, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, University of California (Santa Cruz), Museum of Modern Art, Washington University (St. Louis), Carnegie-Mellon University, Amherst College, Victoria and Albert Museum (London), University of Wisconsin (Stevens Point), North Bennet Street School, Messiah College, Hartwick College, Dickson Art Center, Vassar College Library, Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), University of New Mexico (Albuquerque), The Print Center, CalArts (California Institute of the Arts), University of Michigan, Library of Congress, Savannah College of Art and Design, Otis College of Art and Design, Ohio University, Bucknell University

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Metadata

Title:

Inviolable Habits

Date of publication:

1993

Place of publication:

Rosendale, NY

Publisher:

Women's Studio Workshop

Subjects:

Women and religion, Sex--Religious aspects

Dimensions:

14 x 60 cm. folded to 14 x 10 cm.

Number in edition:

250

Paging:

1 folded strip ([6] leaves)

Printing method:

Offset

Binding:

Ribbon closure

Structure:

Accordion Fold Book

Funding source:

New York State Council on the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, Women's Studio Workshop

Printer:

Rebecca Lown

Binder:

Rebecca Lown

Other notes:

William Blake quotation printed on ribbon closure