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COPYRIGHT 2007 Visual Studies Workshop
GAIL REBHAN: AGING
PYRAMID ATLANTIC GALLERY SILVER SPRING, MARYLAND
DECEMBER 2, 2006-JANUARY 13, 2007
Poetry and art memorializing the dying reached its apex in the nineteenth century, before medical breakthroughs and the rise of youth culture made aging unfashionable. By contrast, with more youthful victims of AIDS and breast cancer, ailing octogenarians are rarely depicted in contemporary art. Repudiating this trend, Gail Rebhan's exhibition of giclec prints, "Aging," charts the downward are of her father Herman Rebhan's journey into debilitating old age. With permission from her father--a Polish immigrant, observant Jew, and, in his prime, a prominent international labor leader Rebhan exposes his experience of aging to the public, breaking taboos concerning "successful aging" as well as discussing family matters with...
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