Vestiges of New Battles: Linda Stein's Sculpture after 9/11. (cover story)

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  • Author(s): Matlock, Jann1
  • Source:
    Feminist Studies. Fall2007, Vol. 33 Issue 3, p569-590. 22p. 9 Color Photographs.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      Stein, Linda; Sculpture; Women sculptors; Women artists; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in art; World Trade Center (New York, N.Y. : 1970-2001)
    • Subject Terms:
      New York (N.Y.); New York (State)
    • Abstract:
      This essay discusses the sculpture of Linda Stein. Her sculpture imagines a corrective to the peculiar masculinization of protection that resulted from the attacks on the World Trade Center. Her larger-than-life forms resemble armor but they are made of materials that tell other stories than those of war. Stein speaks openly of her own antiwar stance and explores, through her art, alternatives to the values of an administration that she feels has substituted war-mongering for protection. Stein was well positioned as a sculptor to think about the vestiges unearthed from the rubble. Although she claims never to have visited the site of Ground Zero because of her own traumatic relation to that day, her post-2001 work seems to imagine what might have been found there.