Dimensions: object: 520 x 317 x 336 mm
Copyright: © The estate of Eileen Agar | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: This is Eileen Agar's mixed-media sculpture, "Angel of Anarchy." It's wild! What a combination of textures. What's your take on this assemblage? Curator: Agar uses found materials – fabrics, feathers, shells – transforming them through artistic labor. Consider the social implications of these materials. Where did they come from? Who produced them? Editor: Interesting. So, you're focusing on the object's history through its components? Curator: Precisely. The contrast between luxurious silks and coarse raffia invites us to contemplate class and consumerism, don't you think? Editor: I hadn’t considered that, but it definitely adds another layer to my understanding of the piece. Thanks!
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The blindfolded Angel of Anarchy is loosely based on an earlier painted plaster head. Agar stated that with this new work she wanted to create something ‘totally different, more astonishing, powerful ... more malign’. It suggests the foreboding and uncertainty that she felt about the future in the late 1930s. Believing that women are the true surrealists, Agar wrote: ‘the importance of the unconscious in all forms of Literature and Art establishes the dominance of a feminine type of imagination over the classical and more masculine order.’ Gallery label, October 2016
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