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Underwire Brat #1 ©2002 Deborah Burge
(Bra Issues Brat was originally produced in a series of 3, this is the first of the series and is still in the artist's collection)
10"x10" mixed media Los Osos, California
-What are Brats?

Underwire Brat #1 © 2002 Deborah Burge

The Brat Sculptures

The category of "Brat" was first invented by Deborah as a merging of the word Maquette and the word bra. (Traditionally the word maquette is used for a study of or for a large sculpture i.e.: Rodin and Henry Moore both produced numerous maquettes of large scale sculptures) The large scale tabletop sized bras are the basis for these miniature bra sculptures and so from "bra-ette" she formed the word "Brat". When research of the history of the word "brat" revealed the English dialect root meaning "coarse garment", she exclaimed: "How perfect is that?"
And the rest, as they say, is art history...

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