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Week 9 article evaluation on Music Ensemble Librarianship Notes (link: Ensemble librarianship)
The article seems to be pretty relevant to the topic with no strange sidetracks, nor does it seem biased one way or another on any issue. It does focus a little more on orchestra librarianship, but that makes sense as there are slightly more responsibilities for people in that area of ensemble librarianship. However, many of the links for the citations do not work, and a couple are blogs which are not really an appropriate citation, and the blog post is hardly unbiased. Even though many of the links don't work (or are books) the citations seem to suggest that they would be reliable sources if the links worked as they are publications from professionals or from national and international music librarianship organizations like the Major Orchestra Librarians' Association (MOLA). The writers of this Wikipedia article do mention that there is little written history on this topic and that it is mostly oral based, so this may somewhat hinder the ability to cite information possibly? None of the citations cite anything past 2012, so it is possible that the information is a little out of date, but not enough to be really concerned in my opinion, as I did a quick search on LISA (articles and abstracts on librarianship) and only two articles came up that were more recent. There could be more but I didn't look that deep. There isn't really any discussion on the Talk page, just one where someone modified the external links (obviously not the citations), and nothing else. It is rated as a "Start" class article, as it does need some improvement in terms of citations and grammar in some cases. It seems to be a part of the WikiProject Articles for Creation. I updated one of the citation links (number 18) so that it now takes a user to the right page instead of a "page not found" error.

Christina Ramberg Article Notes
The whole structure of the article needs to be edited to match what more complete Wikipedia articles look like, for example, right now everything is written in a few block paragraphs instead of divided into different sections like most Wikipedia articles. I would also like to add more images if possible of her artwork or at least of her, as the article looks pretty boring as of right now for an article about an artist. She died in 1995 so I'm hoping I shouldn't have too many problems with that. I also want to include a list of all or most of her works as well as any exhibits she was/is a part of. I would also of course like to expand on the main content of the article, for example there is very little basic biographical information on her.

Possible Bibliographic Sources:
''Ramberg, Christina. Christina Ramberg. Boston: Institute of Contemporary Art, 2013.'' ISBN: 0989518116

''Dan Nadel with Judith Tannenbaum, consulting curator. What Nerve! : Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to the Present. New York, NY :D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 2014. ISBN: 1938922468''

''Seaman, Donna author. Identity Unknown : Rediscovering Seven American Women Artists. New York, NY :Bloomsbury USA, 2017.''

''Cooke, Lynne, author. Outliers And American Vanguard Art. Washington : Chicago :National Gallery of Art ; The University of Chicago Press, 2018.''

Christina Ramberg: Gallery 400 of the University of Illinois at Chicago URL: http://gallery400.uic.edu/exhibitions/christina-ramberg-drawings/related_pages/artist-biography

Corbett, John. Christina Ramberg: Corset Urns & Other Inventions, 1968-1980. http://www.davidnolangallery.com/exhibitions/christina-ramberg

List of Christina Ramberg's exhibitions as compiled by David Nolan http://www.davidnolangallery.com/artists/christina-ramberg PDF link: http://www.davidnolangallery.com/attachment/en/55264b97cfaf344b688b4568/TextOneColumnWithFile/56c765bc59a837b61e220f45

= Edit of Christina Ramberg Article *changes I made are in bold =

Christina Ramberg (1946–1995) was an American painter associated with the Chicago Imagists, a group of representational artists—such as Jim Nutt, Gladys Nilsson, Roger Brown, and Ed Paschke—who attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the late 1960s. The Imagists took their cues from Surrealism, Pop, and West Coast underground comic illustration, and at during its "heyday was enchanted with the abject status of sex in post-war America, particularly as writ on the female form." Ramberg is best known for her depictions of partial female bodies (heads, torsos, hands) forced into submission by undergarments and imagined in odd, erotic predicaments.

Biography
'''Christina Ramberg was born on August 12, 1946 ton the Kentucky military base of Camp Campbell where her father, Vernon Campbell, was an army colonel. Her mother, Norma, had a love of music, and had originally wanted to go a conservatory to pursue her musical career, but was unable to due to a lack of financial resources, although she did eventually teach music lessons. Due to Vernon's military service, the family moved frequently, including overseas. When Christina was four her family moved to Yokohama Japan for two-and-a-half-years, and she attended school in Germany during her third and fourth grades. In the United States, her family lived in Kansas, Virginia, and Highwood, Illinois (just north of Chicago) where Christina attended Highland Park High School for her junior and senior year. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1968 and her Master of Fine Arts in 1973 both from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she studied with Ray Yoshida, who was a primary mentor of the Chicago Imagists group that Christina became a part of. Yoshida encouraged his students in the use of commercial and popular culture images such as comic books and magazines as a basis for their art. This is also where she met her husband Philip Hanson who was also an art student who studied with Yoshida and is also considered a member of the Chicago Imagists group. They were married in 1968, the same year that they both exhibited their work for the first time in the False Image show at the Hyde Park Art Center. They were also both faculty members at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Philip reflected years later that "students liked her a lot. A good woman teacher was important to them, particularly in that time. It was much more dominated by men, so to have a teacher like Christina, who was doing her own work, that was a big deal. The men could be very nice, but it was really meaningful to learn from another woman." Ramberg and Hanson had one son, Alexander, who was born in 1976, although they did have a late term miscarriage before Alex, and both experiences greatly impacted her art. By 1980 her marriage to Hanson had become strained, and they eventually agreed to live apart, although they remained close for the rest of their lives. In 1989 Ramberg was diagnosed with Pick's disease or frontotemporal dementia, a rare form of dementia that attacks the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain. When she could no longer live alone, Hanson took care of her until she had to go to an assisted living facility. She died in 1995 at the age of forty-nine. '''

Style and Works
The depiction of the female torso is the most common motif in Ramberg's art, with the torso being corseted, girdled, and otherwise constricted and veiled by the bondage-like trappings of typical 1950s female garments. Ramberg relates a memory of watching her mother dress for a party in an interview: "She would wear these—I guess that they are called 'Merry Widow[s]'—and I can remember being stunned by how it transformed her body, how it pushed up her breasts and slenderized down her waist. I think that the paintings have a lot to do with this, with watching and realizing that a lot of these undergarments totally transform a woman's body. … I thought it was fascinating … in some ways, I thought it was awful." Another distinguishing feature of Ramberg's art is the absence of any faces, with the head not drawn at all, seen only from the back, or concealed by hair. The motif of the "hairdo" is likewise common in Ramberg's oeuvre, the hairstyle also being indicative of a type of mid-century female "conditioning" or conformity. Critic Katheryn Rosenfeld, in a 2000 New Art Examiner review states: "it's... hard not to read in the work a psycho-sexual inventory of the limitations of white middle-class womanhood at mid-century."

In keeping with their subject matter, Christina Ramberg's paintings are highly composed and finished to the point that they themselves are referred to as fetishistic. Worked on masonite in acrylic, they are precisely painted and are characterized by their low tone and mute palette. In a 2012 Art in America review by Nancy Princenthal, she describes the draftsmanship in Ramberg's 1970 Corset/Urn series this way: "inky black with spiky pink highlights, they are prim and sexily sinister... deft, dark and reticent." In the 1970s, Ramberg's work evolved from its strict focus on the female form to less sexualized, even non-human forms such as urn forms, chair backs, and geometries "eliding the boundaries between figuration and abstraction, human and object." Her human forms turned from figures seen from the back or in profile to fully frontal torsos that are more rigid and robotic, and have both male and female characteristics which gives her art a sense of androgyny and uncertainty. Still, her signature style remained: crisp, black outlines, muted colors, cropped forms, attention to pattern and detail. '''By the early 1980s Ramberg took a break from her exploration of the female body and started to quilt more actively than she had in the past. Like her paintings, the patterns in her quilts are crisp and exact, with complex combinations of contrasting colors and forms. In the mid to late 1980s Ramberg's artwork shifted to include a "satellite" motif that incorporated some patterns and shapes from her quilting, only her color palette was back to the gray, white, blue, and black of her earlier work instead of brighter colors. These later works are referred to as her "satellite" motif phase because the combination of circles, cones triangles, and lines resemble the plans for a telescope, satellite, or some other mechanical invention. '''

Exhibitions
'''Christina Ramberg did more group exhibitions than solo exhibitions during her life time, however she is getting recognized more and more in the contemporary art community with exhibitions of her artwork being displayed in recent years. Below is a list of her solo and group exhibitions during her life time to the present.'''

==== Solo Exhibitions ==== 1974--Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago

1977--Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York

1981--Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York

1982--Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York

1988--A Retrospective 1968-1988, The Renaissance Society, Chicago

2000--Drawings, Gallery 400 at University of Illinois at Chicago

2000--Drawings, Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles

2000--Drawings, Herron Gallery at the Herron School of Art, Indianapolis, IN

2000--Drawings, Marsh Gallery at University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, VA

2001--Paintings and Drawings, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York

2011--Corset Urns and Other Inventions: 1968-1980, David Nolan Gallery, New York

2013--Christina Ramberg, The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston

2014--Christina Ramberg (in Glasgow International, Festival 2014), Carlton Place, Glasgow

Group Exhibitions
1968--False Image, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL

1969--False Image II, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL

1969--Spirit of the Comics, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

1969--Don Baum Sez 'Chicago Needs Famous Artists' , Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

1970--Thirteen Chicago Artists, Richard Feigen Gallery, New York

1970--Surplus Slop from the Windy City, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco

1970--Surplus Slop from the Windy City, Sacramento State College of Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA

1971--The New Curiosity Shop, The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago

1972--What They're Up To in Chicago, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada

1972--Chicago Imagist Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

1972--Young Chicago Artists, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI

1972--75th Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, The Art Institute of Chicago

1972--1972 Biennial Exhibition, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1973--Made in Chicago: XII Bienal Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

1974--Beispiel Eisenstadt IV: Internationale Malerwochen im Burgenland, Landesgalerie im Schloss Esterhazy, Eisenstadt, Austria

1976--Visions: Painting and Sculpture: Distinguished Alumni from 1945 to the Present, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

1976--Old and New Work by Artists from the Phyllis Kind Gallery, Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, WI

1976--The Chicago Connection, E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA; Traveled to: Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport, CA; Phoenix Art Museum, AZ; Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis TN; Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, New York

1977--76th Exhibition of Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, The Art Institute of Chicago

1978--Contemporary Chicago Painters, University of Northern Iowa Gallery of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA

1978--Eleven Chicago Painters, The University of South Florida Gallery of Art, Tallahassee, FL

1979--Chicago Currents: The Koffler Foundation Collection, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

1979--1979 Biennial Exhibition, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1980--American Paintings of the Sixties and Seventies: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art, Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, Montgomery, AL 1980--Renderings of the Modern Woman, Joseloff Gallery of the University of Hartford, Hartford, CT

1980--Some Recent Art from Chicago, Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

1980--The Figurative Tradition in American Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

'1980--Who Chicago? An Exhibition of Contemporary Imagists, Ceolfrith Gallery Sunderland Arts Centre London, England; Traveled to: Third Eye Center, Glasgow, Scotland; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland; Ulster Museum, Belfast, Ireland; Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), Boston; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA'

1981--A Woman's Place, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI

1982--Fifty National Women in Art, Edison Community College, Fort Meyers, FL

1982--Selections from the Dennis Adrian Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

1982--Chicago Imagists, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri; Traveled to: Saginaw Museum of Art, Saginaw, MI

1983--Contemporary Chicago Imagists, Merwin and Wakeley Gallery, Illinois Wesleyan University, Chicago

1983--Looking at Women: Images of Women by Contemporary Artists, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago

1983--Chicago Scene, Mandeville Art Gallery, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA

1984--Chicago Cross Section, Trisolini Gallery of Ohio University, Athens, OH

1984--Ten Years of Collecting at the MCA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

1984--Artists Call Against U.S. Intervention in Central America and the Caribbean, Dart Gallery, Chicago

1985--Contemporary Quilts, Karl Oskar Gallery, Westwood Hills, KS

1985--Imagist Update, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago

1987--Quilts, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago

1987--Drawings from the Chicago Imagists, The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago

1987--The Prints of Ten Chicago Imagist Artists, David and Alfred Smart Gallery, University of Chicago

1987--Surfaces: Two Decades of Painting in Chicago, Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago

1989--On Kawara: Date Paintings, The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago

1990--Drawing Invitational: Twenty-Nine Chicago Artists, Sara Spurgeon Gallery, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA

1996--Art in Chicago, 1945-1995, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

1999--On Paper, Fleischer/Ottman Gallery, Philadelphia

1999--Quirky, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York

2002--Hair Stories, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York

2004--Fabulous Histories: Indigenous Anomalies in American Art, Fleisher-Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia

2004--Soft Edge, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

2006--Abstract Imagist, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago

2007--Unsung, Nicole Klagsbrun, New York

2007--Karl Wirsum: Winsome Works (some) and Hairy Who (and some others), Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI

2008--Chicago Imagism, Russell Bowman Art Advisory, Chicago

2008--Girls and Company, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI

2008--Everything's Here, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

2010--Ox-bow Centennial, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago

2011--Go Figure, Smart Museum at The University of Chicago

2011--Re:Chicago, DePaul University Art Museum, Chicago

2011--Chicago Imagists, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI

2012--Automaton, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne

2013--Sinister Pop, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

2014--Liverpool Biennial: A Needle Walks Into a Haystack, Tate Liverpool

'2014--What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to the Present, RISD Museum, Providence, RI'

2015--Unorthodox, The Jewish Museum, New York

=== Partial List of Works  === 'Black Widow'', 1971. Acrylic on Masonite. Collection of the Illinois State Museum.'''

'Untitled (Crying Women)'', 1968. Felt-tip pen on paper (double-sided).'''

'Untitled (Hands)'', c. 1971. Felt-tip pen, graphite, and colored pencil on graph paper.'''

'Waiting Lady'', 1972. Acrylic on Masonite.'''

'Back to Back'', 1973. Etching.'''

'Untitled (Skirts Jackets Weaving)''. Graphite on paper.'''

'Rolling Stone'', 1983. Cotton.'''

'Untitled (Satellite Sketches)''. Graphite on paper.'''

'Wired'', 1974-1975. Acrylic on Masonite.'''

'Hexagons, Number 1'', 1984. Cotton.'''

'Hermetic Indecision'', 1977. Acrylic on Masonite.'''

'Sedimentary Disturbance'', 1980. Acrylic on Masonite'''

'Freeze and Melt'', 1981. Acrylic on Masonite.'''

'Untitled (#126)'', 1986. Acrylic on linen.'''

'Untitled (torso with pants)'', 1982. Acrylic on Masonite.'''

'Untitled (torso with leaf)'', 1980. Acrylic on Masonite.'''

'O.H.D.'', 1976. Acrylic on Masonite.'''

'Corset/Urns'', 1970. Acrylic on 8 Masonite panels.'''

'Gray Day'', 1969. Acrylic on Masonite.'''

Cabbage Head (Side 1), 1968.

Hearing, 1981.

Japanese Showcase, 1984.

Glamour Guide, 1973.

Tall Tickler, 1974.

Strung (For Bombois), 1975.

Chairbacks, 1976

Vertical Amnesia, 1980.

Muscular Alternative, 1979.

Apron/Core, 1982.

Untitled #129, 1987.

Untitled #130, 1987.

Hand, 1971.

Shady Lacy, 1971.

Skirted Vessel, 1982.

Cabbage Head (Side 2), 1968.

Untitled, 1980.

Lola La Lure, 1969.

Shadow Panel, 1972.

Rose's Woe, 1969.

Sore Head, 1969.

Hair, 1968.

A Cross Breeding, 1978.

O.H. #2, 1976.

Istrian River Lady, 1974.

Untitled #3, 1981.

Untitled #1, 1981.

Black N Blue Jacket, 1981.

No Regrets, 1980.

Dull Quilt, 1968.

Pearl Rainbow, 1969.

Wrapped Ticklers, 1974.