Guerilla Girls' Bedside Companion

The Guerilla Girls

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Penguin Books Ltd
01 February 1998

Art & Architecture; Rock & Pop music

"" A

tart, funny, lurid little bomb of a book. It's all p.c., of course, but not at all predictable, and a lot of righteous information gets dispersed in record time."" --BUST Magazine

We were Guerillas before we were Gorillas. From the beginning, the press wanted publicity photos. We needed a disguise. No one remembers, for sure, how we got our fur, but one story is that at an early meeting, an original Girl, a bad speller, wrote 'Gorilla' instead of 'Guerilla.' It was an enlightening mistake. It gave us our mask-ulinity.

Ever wonder about the abundance of naked male statues in the Classical section of your favorite museum? Did you know medieval convents were hotbeds of female artistic expression? And how did those ""bad boy"" artists of the twentieth century make it even harder for a girl to get a break? Thanks to the Guerrilla Girls, those masked feminists whose mission it is to break the white male stronghold over the art world, art history--as we know it--is history. Taking you back through the ages, the Guerrilla Girls demonstrate how males (particularly white males) have dominated the art scene, and discouraged, belittled, or obscured women's involvement. Their skeptical and hilarious interpretations of ""popular"" theory are augmented by the newest research and the expertise of prominent feminist art historians. ""Believe-it-or-not"" quotations from some of the ""experts"" are sprinkled throughout, as are the Guerrilla Girls' signature masterpieces- reproductions of famous art works, slightly ""altered"" for historic accuracy and vindication.

This colorful reinterpretation of classic and modern art, as outrageous as it is visually arresting, is a much-needed corrective to traditional art history, and an unabashed celebration of female artists.

By: The Guerilla Girls
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 252mm, Width: 200mm, Spine: 7mm
Weight: 290g
ISBN: 9780140259971
ISBN 10: 014025997X
Pages: 96
Publication Date: 01 February 1998
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

The Guerrilla Girls are a collective of female artists and art-world professionals. Their largest contingent is in New York City, but they have been sighted all over the United States, Europe, and wherever truth, justice, and the American way of discrimination still prevail.

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