Bibliograph

Confessions of the Guerrilla Girls, by the Guerrilla Girls (whoever they really are) ; with an essay by Whitney Chadwick

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Confessions of the Guerrilla Girls, by the Guerrilla Girls (whoever they really are) ; with an essay by Whitney Chadwick

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Confessions of the Guerrilla Girls

Nature of contents

catalogs

Oclc number

31436533

Responsibility statement

by the Guerrilla Girls (whoever they really are) ; with an essay by Whitney Chadwick

Summary

Since 1985, a group of anonymous women wearing gorilla masks and brandishing glue brushes have taken zap actions at the art world's "stale, male, Yale" establishment. Their wonderfully smart-ass posters (example: "Advantages of being a woman artist: Working without the pressure of success, knowing your career might pick up after you're eighty ... ") have bedecked city walls, converted elitist curators, become collector's items, and even found their way into museum collections. Their work - and this book - offers proof that humor is a great, blunt-edged weapon against evil. The Guerrilla Girls are a collective of female artists and art-world professionals. Their largest contingent is in New York, but they have also been sighted all over the United States, across Europe, and wherever truth, justice, and the American way of discrimination still prevail

Table Of Contents

Women who run with the brushes and glue: essay / Whitney Chadwick -- Guerrilla Girls bare all: an interview -- Stick 'em up: posters & projects, 1985-1994 -- Love letters & hate mail -- Spreading jungle fever -- Postcards

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