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Send a message to those Body-Obessed Guys in Hollywood (project for Bitch),

2001

Guerrilla Girls, active New York City, 1985-
2012-143.65
The Guerrilla Girls is a collective of anonymous women artists whose work combines elements of theater, agitprop, and civil disobedience. Founded in New York in 1985, the group focuses on gender and racial discrimination in the art world. The underrepresentation of women artists in museums and galleries as well as in art criticism and textbooks is rampant, despite the fact that women have made up more than half of the graduating class of art schools for decades. This injustice is one the Guerrilla Girls seek to expose through their various projects, particularly the dozens of posters they have produced over the last twenty-seven years, all originally intended for public spaces. Incisive, hilarious, and polemical, these posters combine facts and arresting visual design. They read like PSAs, advertisements, or the kinds of charts one might use in a sales briefing, motivational speech, or training session, all formats the Guerrilla Girls repurpose for very different ends.

Information

Title
Send a message to those Body-Obessed Guys in Hollywood (project for Bitch)
Dates

2001

Maker

Guerrilla Girls

Medium
Limited edition signed poster
Dimensions
24.9 x 38.4 cm (9 13/16 x 15 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund
Object Number
2012-143.65
Culture
American
Type
posters, prints
Subject
statistics-related concepts, racial discrimination, gender issues, awards, women, cinematography, filmmakers, artists, figures (representations), masks (costume)

Guerrilla Girls, the artists, New York, New York, sold; to Princeton University Art Museum, 2012.

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