Sign up to get our emails with art news, exclusive offers, and inspiration. Anne. She said little during the discussion, and eventually the male panelists clamored for Marisol to remove the mask. Marisol, Tea for Three, 1960. More information on Marisol Escobar can be found here. [17] Through Marisol's theatric and satiric imitation, common signifiers of 'femininity' are explained as patriarchal logic established through a repetition of representation within the media. As she revealed to Avis Berman in a 1984 interview for Smithsonian, Marisol suffered self-inflicted acts of penance for a brief period in her early teens. "The Image Valued 'As Found' And The Reconfiguring Of Mimesis In Post-War Art. 12-15. "Marisol (Marisol Escobar) [17] Therefore, "Collapsing the distance between the role of woman and that of artist by treating the signs of artistic masculinity as no less contingent, no less the product of representation, than are the signs of femininity. Biography. "[17] Marisol exposed the merit of an artist as a fictional identity that must be enacted through the repetition of representational parts. [18] Their stiff persona is embodied from within the wooden construction. Marisols design won the bid because of the contemporary look of her work. "I was born an artist. 1/2, 1991, pg. Public Commission, The Scarlet Letter Lincoln Center, New York, NY. Beginning in the 1980s she returned to large-scale figural assemblages and portrait-homages to well-known contemporary artists and personalities. 79, Whiting, Ccile. [7] She then returned to begin studies at the Art Students League of New York, at the New School for Social Research, and she was a student of artist Hans Hofmann. . 90, De Lamater, Peg. He explains that "Marisol inherited some of the features of this tradition by way of her training under Howard Warshaw and Yasuo Kaiyoshi. This initial contact led to her creation of a large body of work based on Native Americans and an exhibition of this work as the United States contribution to the Seville Fair in Spain. RACAR: Revue d'Art Canadienne / Canadian Art Review, vol. "Figuring Marisol's Femininities." In the late 1960s, she once again fled fame and left New York to travel around the world. Marisol Escobar was born on May 22, 1930 (age 85) in Paris, France. Although she enjoyed festive occasions, Marisol was a quiet person who observed people more than she talked to them. 84, Whiting, Ccile. While in Tahiti, Marisol learned to scuba dive. "Marisol Portrait Sculpture." [41] At this time, her sculpture was recognized relative to certain pop objectives. Pg. [42] Like many artists at that time feared, the female sensibility was the reason Marisol was often marginalized. [14] An identity which was most commonly determined by the male onlooker, as either mother, seductress, or partner. . [41] As a female artist of color, critics distinguished Marisol from Pop as a 'wise primitive' due to the folk and childlike qualities within her sculptures. Josefina Escobar committed suicide in 1941, when Marisol was eleven. Marisol and her brother Gustavo, who later became an economist, lived very comfortable and nomadic lives, constantly traveling with their parents throughout the Americas and Europe. When we view her awe-striking The Party sculpture, we join Marisol in her keen observations about people. Today, her works are in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Toledo Museum of Art, and the Dallas Museum of Art, among others. She had been living in the same Tribeca loft apartment for almost 30 years. In 1950 Marisol moved to New York City and said about the time that she at last found people like myself. She studied at the Art Students League, the New School for Social Research, and the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts, where many of New Yorks Abstract Expressionists studied with Hans Hofmann. More about Marisol Escobar Less about Marisol Escobar Discussions Have your say Be the first to make a comment >> Recommended The artist has also illuminated tragic human conditions by focusing on various disadvantaged or minority groups such as Dust Bowl migrants, Father Damien (depicted with the marks of leprosy), poor Cuban families, and Native Americans. (February 22, 2023). She said little during the discussion, and eventually the male panelists clamored for Marisol to remove the mask. Afterwards, I had to explain to everyone just what that meant." Marisol, The Party, 1968. [4] Marisol decided to not speak again after her mother's passing, although she made exceptions for answering questions in school or other requirements; she did not regularly speak out loud until her early twenties. Her whispery voice, natural reserve, and marathon silences lent a mysterious allure. Tea for Three brings together the colors of the Venezuelan flag: yellow, red, and blue. Sixty-six artists bid for the commissioned project to create a sculpture for the Capitol, and only seven were selected to create models for review. [51] Marisol's work has attracted increased interest, including a major retrospective in 2014 at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art in Memphis, Tennessee,[30] which also became her first solo show in New York City, at Museo del Barrio. Marisol also designed stage sets for Martha Grahams The Eyes of the Goddess, performed in 1992 at City Center Theater in New York. Albright-Knox Art Gallery. I was very sad myself and the people I met were so depressing. The pop art culture in the 1960s embraced Marisol as one of its members, enhancing her recognition and popularity. [8], Marisol's image is included in the iconic 1972 poster Some Living American Women Artists by Mary Beth Edelson. Sculptor from France who was influenced by Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and a variety of other aesthetic trends in his work. Dust Bowl Migrants, Father Damien, and The Party are some of her most well-known sculptures. Marisol dropped her family surname of Escobar in order to divest herself of a patrilineal identity and to "stand out from the crowd". 74, Whiting, Ccile. Marisols mother died in New York in 1941 when Marisol was eleven years old. 1930, Paris, Franced. "It was magical for me to find things. [14], Marisol mimicked the role of femininity in her sculptural grouping Women and Dog, which she produced between 1963 and 1964. The American sculptor Duane Hanson (1925-1996) was one of the leading sculptors working in a superrealist, or Verist, style. Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, Thematic Series: The 1960s. Her imitation of President Charles de Gaulle pokes fun at his autocratic style of leadership, showing him as an older man who looks confused. She spent her childhood traveling the globe, moving back and forth between Caracas and New York. Her admiration for Leonardo Da Vinci inspired a sculpture entitled The Last Supper. But Marisol didnt like the limelight. Her education: Jepson Art Institute,cole des Beaux-Arts,Art Students League of New York,Hans Hofmann, School. Upon her death, Marisol bequeathed her entire estate to the gallery. She also attended the Art Students League of New York and Paris' Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Her statue was based on a photo she saw of him near the end of his life, which is why he is wearing glasses and his arm is in a sling. 18, no. During her teen years, she coped with the trauma of her mother's death, by walking on her knees until they bled, keeping silent for long periods, and tying ropes tightly around her waist. She died in 2016. In Rome, she studied the works of the Renaissance masters while she re-evaluated her own work and artistic goals. Monday Friday: 10 am 5 pm Warhol said she was the first girl artist with glamour but he also took her art seriously. Figures of a butler and a maid bear trays of real glasses. I started doing something funny so that I would become happier -- and it worked.". The darker "Cuban Children with Goat" depicts a line of children with pre-street art-style roughness, their wooden bodies worn down and their faces contorted with exhaustion. She created assemblages unlike any other work being done at the time, working with plaster casts, wooden blocks, woodcarvings, drawings, photography, paint, and pieces of contemporary clothing. After studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Marisol moved to New York City in 1950 where she studied at the Art Students League, the New School for Social Research, from 1951 to 1954, as well as at the Hans Hofmann school. Marisol did scuba diving in every ocean around the world from 1968 to 1972. But she ended up back in New York, studying under Abstract Expressionist painter Hans Hofmann and rubbing elbows with artists like Alex Katz and Willem de Kooning, There she began to embrace the unconventional lifestyle of a bohemian artist. In addition to sculpture, Marisol also created works on paper, using colored pencils, crayons, and paint, and used her painting and drawing skills in her sculptures. "Figuring Marisol's Femininities." Shy to the extreme, the artist herself became a sort of artwork, an amalgamation like the sculptures she forged. In 1962 her best known works were a sixty-six-inch-high portrait called The Kennedy Family, and another, called The Family, which stood eighty-three inches tall and represented a farm family from the 1930s' dust bowl era. The memorial features a sinking ship, torpedoed by a U-boat, and three sailors on an abstracted deck, one calling for help, and one reaching down into the water. One of her most well-known works of this period was The Party, a life-size group installation of figures at the Sidney Janis Gallery. 8. So when she's asked why there are two pipes, she says, 'Well, Hugh Hefner has too much of everything. The Hutchinson Encyclopedia. I was into my late twenties before I started talking again -- and silence had become such a habit that I really had nothing to say to anybody.". [50] Encyclopedia.com gives you the ability to cite reference entries and articles according to common styles from the Modern Language Association (MLA), The Chicago Manual of Style, and the American Psychological Association (APA). The Castelli Gallery, Sidney Janis Gallery, and currently the Marlborough Gallery have represented her at various points in her career. By then she had dropped her last name so that she would "stand out from the crowd," as she later commented. [12] Marisol's practice demonstrated a dynamic combination of folk art, dada, and surrealism ultimately illustrating a keen psychological insight on contemporary life. Marisol Escobar died three times. Pg. [4], Josefina Escobar committed suicide in 1941, when Marisol was eleven. Marisol took printers type cases and placed small terracotta figures in the openings. In her work, Marisol immortalized American icons from John Wayne to the Kennedy family, poking fun at her subjects while imbuing them with a morbid disquiet beneath the surface. Marisol studied art at the Paris cole des Beaux-Arts in 1949. artGallery@qcc.cuny.edu. Her 1964 exhibition at the Stable Gallery received up to two thousand visitors a day, and her first solo show at the Sidney Janis Gallery in 1966 was even more popular. This is a part of the Wikipedia article used under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA). She did, only to reveal that her face had been painted white, exactly mimicking the mask she'd just removed. Using a feminist technique, Marisol disrupted the patriarchal values of society through forms of mimicry. Pg. '"[37], Marisol's diversity, unique eye and character set her apart from any one school of thought. 2016, New York, USA. Marisol, The Party. "It started as a kind of rebellion," she told a reporter in 1965. Her inspiration for using found objects came from the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, as well as from the protopop artist Robert Rauschenberg, who was famous for his mixed media assemblages from the mid-1950s. Pg. The world lost a pioneering artist when Marisol Escobar died at the age of 85 in a New York hospital on April 30, 2016 after living with Alzheimer's. "Who is Marisol?" #MarisolEscobar, venezuelan artist, died today (b.1930) ::: "Last Supper", 1982, Met :: #Art #ArtHistory #PopArt :: pic.twitter.com/OUNqDPR6g9. Marisols discovery and subsequent study of Pre-Columbian artifacts in 1951 led to her abandoning traditional painting by 1954. Marisol wore designer clothes at the newest discotheques, or simple sweaters, jeans, and boots at art openings. Their romance always seemed playful, but they did have a strong emotional connection. Following the tragedy and for the duration of World War II, the family lived mainly in Caracas, with the children attending a series of local schools. [41], Working within a patriarchal field, women often obscured their gender identity in fear of their work being reduced to a "female sensibility". [4] She disliked this institution, and transferred to the Westlake School for Girls in 1948. While visiting a primitive art gallery in New York, she was spellbound by pre-Columbian pottery and Mexican folk art boxes with small, carved figures. French sculptor whose work was influenced by Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and many other artistic movements. Pg. Marisol (born Maria Sol) Escobar, known as Marisol, was born to Venezuelan parents in Paris. We connect brands with social media talent to create quality sponsored content. [39], In Pop art, the role of a "woman" was consistently referred to as either mother or seductress and rarely presented in terms of a female perspective. The pop art culture in the 1960s embraced Marisol as one of its members, enhancing her recognition and popularity. He is best known fo, Duane Hanson The full text of the article is here , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marisol_Escobar, Portrait of Sidney Janis Selling Portrait of Sidney Janis by Marisol, by Marisol. [46] Simultaneously, by including her personal presence through photographs and molds, the artist illustrated a self-critique in connection to the human circumstances relevant to all living the "American dream". February 24, 2021. Often described as Pop Artist, Marisol herself rejected the title. 76, Whiting, Ccile. Marisol began making small, carved figures that got noticed by art dealer Leo Castelli, who included her in a 1957 group show and then gave her a solo exhibition the same year. Do You Know These 5 Trailblazing Women Artists. 20, 23-24. "I do my research in the Yellow Pages," she once commented. Therefore, that information is unavailable for most Encyclopedia.com content. "Marisol Portrait Sculpture." The piece, stripped of the snark that defined Pop Art, harkens back to traditional folk art methods of storytelling, using natural materials to evoke history and emotion. She immediately abandoned painting and became a self-taught carpenter and carver, soon developing considerable aptitude at these crafts. Venezuelan-born (sic) society sculptress Marisol Escobar looks quizzically at the head of a woman by British sculptor Henry Moore at new Marlborough-Gerson Gallery. World Telegram & Sun photo by Herman Hiller, 1963. Whiting, Ccile. It means to resubmit herself to ideas about herself, that are elaborated in/by amasculine logic, but so as to make visible, by an effect of playful repetition what was supposed to remain invisible". Not one for sticking to tradition, Marisol combined Pop Art's obsession with flatness with Dada's penchant for the absurd and the scavenger mentality of found object assemblage, creating an aesthetic -- accented by the style of Latin American folk art -- all her own. RACAR: Revue d'Art Canadienne / Canadian Art Review, vol. They lived off assets from oil and real estate investments. Leo Castelli Gallery featured Marisols Pre-Columbian art-inspired carvings of animals and totemic figures in her first one-person exhibition in 1958. Near the end of the war, Marisols father moved the family to Los Angeles, California where Marisol was enrolled in the Westlake School for Girls. Her iconic sculptural style revolves around blocky, wooden statues -- landing somewhere between an ancient artifact, a child's toy and an action figure. They are confident and can inspire others to achieve their goals with their great ambition. Two hands stand out from the center of the sculpture, the larger of the two based on the artists hand. Two exhibits of these works were not well received, and, she felt, misunderstood. Marisol, in full Marisol Escobar, (born May 22, 1930, Paris, Francedied April 30, 2016, New York, New York, U.S.), American sculptor of boxlike figurative works combining wood and other materials and often grouped as tableaux. [21] This approach of using pre-fabricated information, allowed for the product to retain meaning as a cultural artifact. 1/2, 1991, pg. "The Image Valued 'As Found' And The Reconfiguring Of Mimesis In Post-War Art." She depicted President Lyndon B. Johnson holding diminutive portraits of his wife and two daughters in the palm of his hand. Although Marisol began her career painting in an Abstract Expressionist style, she turned to sculpture around 1954. Her art was on the cover of Time magazine. The artist, who went by Marisol, is known for her boxy assemblage sculptures, at once playful and quietly unsettling. She became world-famous in the mid-1960s, but lapsed into relative obscurity within a decade. The show was well received, but Marisol didnt like the fame that it brought and fled to Rome. The bequest also included the artists archive, library, studies, tools, and New York loft apartment. Confusion then was compounded, since she was a frequent escort at parties with the "pope of pop," Andy Warhol, and she made several Go." Paper size is 30.25 x 20.5 inches, with an image size of 30.25 x 20.5 inches. I started doing something funny so that I would become happier and it worked.. 75, Whiting, Ccile. Marisol, who was born in Paris to Venezuelan parents, was profoundly affected by her mother's suicide in 1941. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York. Through a parody of women, fashion, and television, she attempted to ignite social change. "The Image Valued 'As Found' And The Reconfiguring Of Mimesis In Post-War Art." The two artists inspired each other and did some of their best work as their friendship flourished. Certain faces appear to carry echoes of themselves, alluding to the multitudes within us all. The family traveled between New York City and Caracas, Venezuela, and in 1946, when Marisol was 16, they relocated permanently to Los Angeles. Motivated by her admiration for da Vinci as an artist rather than any religious feeling, Marisol executed sculptural renditions of Leonardo da Vincis Last Supper as well as The Virgin with St. Anne in the 1980s. Her interest in identity shaped her life as well as her work. Marisol Escobar (May 22, 1930 - April 30, 2016), otherwise known simply as Marisol, was a Venezuelan-American sculptor [1] born in Paris, who lived and worked in New York City. ." Marisol shared Kings fascination with early American Primitive pieces like a coffee grinder in the shape of a man and wooden figures on wheels. The idea for this artwork came from something left behinda photograph of a family that the artist found in her New York studio. [4], Marisol Escobar began her formal arts education in 1946 with night classes at the Otis Art Institute and the Jepson Art Institute in Los Angeles, where she studied under Howard Warshaw and Rico Lebrun.[4]. [25] By juxtaposing different signifiers of femininity, Marisol explained the way in which "femininity" is culturally produced. At Hofmanns schools in Greenwich Village and Provincetown, Massachusetts, Marisol became acquainted with notions of the push and pull dynamic: of forcing dichotomies between raw and finished states. MARISOL ESCOBARb. Art In America 96.3 (2008): 181, National Prize of Plastic Arts of Venezuela, "Marisol, an Artist Known for Blithely Shattering Boundaries, Dies at 85", "Falleci la escultora venezolana Marisol Escobar a sus 86 aos de edad", "Marisol, Innovative Pop Art Sculptor Written Out of History, Dies at 85", "Perspective | After making this enigmatic masterpiece, Marisol disappeared from the New York art scene she had conquered", "Revisiting Marisol, years after her heyday", "As Portraits Became Pass, These Artists Redefined 'Face Value', "SelfPortrait Looking at The Last Supper", "Some Living American Women Artists/Last Supper", "Beloved Artist Marisol Escobar Dies at 85", "Marisol Estate Is Given to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery", "Self-Portrait Looking at The Last Supper", "Marisol Escobar is the recipient of VAEA's Paez Medal of Art 2016", Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Potts, Alex. Marisols 1967 sculpture portraits of Charles de Gaulle and Lyndon B. Johnson are irreverent but delightful. She had begun drawing early in life, with her parents encouraging her talent by taking her to museums. Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, Thematic Series: The 1960s. [17] She accomplished this through combining sensibilities of both Action painting and Pop art. [31], Her predisposition toward the forms of Pop Art stems, in part, from some of her earliest art training, dating back to her time under Howard Warshaw at the Jepson Art Institute. Cite this article Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography. During the 1950s New York artists held intense panel discussions at a meeting hall. Oral history interview with Marisol, 1968 Feb. 8. She was preceded by an elder brother, Gustavo. "Figuring Marisol's Femininities." She has often included portraits of public figures, family members and friends in her sculpture. [13] As Luce Irigaray noted in her book This Sex Which is Not One, "to play with mimesis is thus, for a woman, to try to recover the place of her exploitation by discourse, without allowing herself to be simply reduced to it. RACAR: Revue d'Art Canadienne / Canadian Art Review, vol. "It started as a kind of rebellion," the artist said in a 1965 interview with The New York Times." Marisol Escobar began her formal arts education in 1946 with night classes at the Otis Art Institute and the Jepson Art Institute in Los Angeles, where she studied under Howard Warshaw and Rico Lebrun. "Figuring Marisol's Femininities." Throughout her career she has told interviewers that her work never had the dimensions of political or social criticism associated with pop art. From 1951 to 1954 she took courses at the New School for Social Research while studying under her most influential mentor, the so-called dean of Abstract Expressionism, Hans Hofmann. [26] By imitating a sourced image, the subject's charged history was preserved within the work. This wealth led them to travel frequently from Europe, the United States, and Venezuela. Her parents encouraged her talent by taking her to museums. Born 1930 Marisol Escobar, in Paris, France. It's true that her work thrives off of repetition and reproduction, whilst reveling in the beauty of banal, everyday figures and pleasures. Marisols mother, Josefina Escobar, committed suicide in 1941, when Marisol was eleven. All rights reserved. A natural beauty, her chic bones-and-hollows face was complemented by her long, glossy black hair. When Marisol was invited she wore a stark, white Japanese mask. 73, Dreishpoon, Douglas. [29] Their masculine superiority was celebrated in its opposition to the possibility of an articulate 'feminine' perspective. Marisela Escobedo Ortiz's social activism began in 2008 in Ciudad Jurez following the murder of her 16-year-old daughter Rub Frayre. At the prestigious Ecole des Beaux-Arts, she was instructed to mimic the painting style of Pierre Bonnard. Maria Sol Escobar was born on May 22, 1930, to Venezuelan parents in Paris, France. Sometimes she combined the materials, as with Figures in Type Drawer (1954). She was included in a Life magazine special issue, The Take-Over Generation: One Hundred of the Most Important Young Men and Women in the United States. 91, De Lamater, Peg. Escobar's work was largely influenced by pre-Columbian artwork, incorporating materials such as terracotta and wood elements while using geometric abstraction. Marisol, whose original name was Maria Sol Escobar, was born in Paris on May 22, 1930 to Venezuelan parents. [22] Through her mimetic approach, the notion of a 'woman' was broken down into individual signifiers in order to visually reassemble the irregularities of the representational parts. [4][5], Although Marisol was deeply traumatized, this did not affect her artistic talents. La nia de 11 aos se refugi en un caparazn de silencio y manifest una personalidad enigmtica y distante, incluso despus de convertirse en una celebridad del mundo del arte neoyorquino en la dcada de 1960. Venezuelan-born society sculptress Marisol Escobar looks quizzically at the head of a woman by British sculptor Henry Moore at new Marlborough-Gerson Gallery / World Telegram, When I first sculpted those big figures, I would look at them and they would scare me. [3] She continued to create her artworks and returned to the limelight in the early 21st century, capped by a 2014 major retrospective show organized by the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. "Marisol's Public and Private De Gaulle. "Not Pop, Not Op, It's Marisol!" From her earliest, roughly carved . However, the date of retrieval is often important. Marisol Escobar was born in 5-22-1930. [18], The sculptural practice of Marisol simultaneously distanced herself from her subject, while also reintroducing the artist's presence through a range of self-portraiture found in every sculpture. The three funny animals mounted atop the narrow rectangular columns wear hats that the artist found. To be close to the site of the project, she rented an apartment near the docks in the Battery Park area to work on the piece. Login [2] She became world-famous in the mid-1960s, but lapsed into relative obscurity within a decade. [12] As Judy Chicago explained to Holly Williams in her interview for "The Independent" in 2015, there was very little recognition for female artists and artists of color. 73, Diehl, Carol. [14] "Femininity" being defined as a fabricated identity made through representational parts. Retrieved February 22, 2023 from Encyclopedia.com: https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/marisol-marisol-escobar. Marisol/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. She disliked this institution, and transferred to the Westlake School for Girls in 1948. [16], Using a feminist technique, Marisol disrupted the patriarchal values of society through forms of mimicry. [23] This style disassociated ideas of femininity as being authentic, but rather considered the concept to be a repetition of fictional ideas. Throughout the sixties and seventies, Marisol expanded her range of subject matter to include many sculptural portraits of friends, families, world leaders, and famous artists. Marisol Escobar, later known as simply "Marisol," was an American artist best known for her carved wooden sculptures, which often incorporated photographs and painted elements. Although largely self-taught, Marisol took a clay course at the Brooklyn Museum Art School. "Marisol's Public and Private De Gaulle." The avant-garde, the primitive, the experimental, the nostalgic, the political, the erotic, the low-brow, the morbid, the sweet, funny, strange, true. She was discouraged from continuing when a friend suffered a stroke while diving. Marisol, nacida en Pars de padres venezolanos, qued sumamente afectada por el suicidio de su madre en 1941. Museum Quality Fine Art Prints & Custom Framing. She became part of the New York art scene, often at the side of Andy Warhol. One of her most moving works is from 1991, her American Merchant Mariners Memorial. Not one, not the other, not quite something else, but everything, together, all at once. [28] Marisol produced satiric social commentaries in concern to gender and race, which being a woman of color is a circumstance she lives in. Pg. Her mother died when she was eleven, during World War II. [12] Artists like Marisol never received the attention they deserved. [32] In an article exploring yearbook illustrations of a very young Marisol, author Albert Boimes notes the often uncited shared influence between her work and other Pop artists. Some of Marisol's most beloved works poke fun at the stodginess of the leisure class, rendering them as constipated geometric configurations. School with Hans Hofmann The New School, New York, NY. These subjects set her work apart from the commercially derived imagery that formed the basis of Pop art. A wonderful movie from the Toledo Museum of Art will help you understand the work better than a 2-D image of it, and we highly recommend this video: Marisol is best known for her bright, boxy sculptures of people representing a broad range of contemporary life. [4] She was preceded by an elder brother, Gustavo. (b. The social and political upheavals of the late 1960s upset Marisol, who had participated in an anti-Vietnam War march. 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