Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?
Artist
Guerrilla Girls
American, active since 1985
Date1989
MediumPoster, color offset lithograph on illustration board
Dimensions27.7 x 71.1 cm
ClassificationsInformation Forms
Credit LineGift of Ann Porter
Object number1990.4
DescriptionYellow poster, the color of a banana, with a horizontal landscape orientation. On the left side, there is a reclining white female nude with the head of a gorilla. Along the top of the poster, text reads, "Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?" In the bottom right corner of the poster, text reads, "Less than 5% of the artists in the Modern Art Section are women, but 85% of the nudes are female." The body of the female figure and her "Oriental" attributes are appropriated from Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres' painting "Grand odalisque", from 1814.On View
Not on viewCollections
Emanuel Glicen Romano, 1897-1984
