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Hannah Wilke American
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Here Wilke attached kneaded erasers meant to resemble vulvas to a vintage postcard. The profusion of erotic part-objects perverts the otherwise earnest image.
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Title: East Falls, New York
Artist:
Hannah Wilke (American, New York 1940–1993 Houston, Texas)
Date: 1975
Medium: Offset lithograph postcard and kneaded eraser on painted cardboard and wood
Dimensions: 15 5/8 × 17 3/4 × 1 1/2 in. (39.7 × 45.1 × 3.8 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Gift of Don Goddard, in memory of Selma Butter, 1983
Accession Number: 1983.539.2
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