Carmen Rosenberg-Miller at Artforum:
THIS SUMMER, a constellation of exhibitions offered the rare opportunity to chart conceptions of motherhood across Renaissance, modern, and contemporary periods. Raphael’s Madonnas were on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the first comprehensive exhibition of his work ever mounted in the United States. Mary Cassatt’s Impressionistic renderings of bourgeois domesticity are the subject of a centennial exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, with two additional shows dedicated to the artist opening this fall at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Musée d’Orsay. At the Whitney Biennial, Carmen de Monteflores’s long-unseen shaped canvases of colorful overlapping figures hung alongside her daughter Andrea Fraser’s wax sculptures of sleeping toddlers. Each of these bodies of work takes the mother as its subject or finds her, inescapably, at its center. Separated by centuries, geography, and sensibility, they share a common preoccupation: How might art depict the complex and socially overdetermined identity of a woman with children? And to what end?
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