Grant's Tomb, New York
Hannah Wilke American
Not on view
Here Wilke attached kneaded erasers meant to resemble vulvas to a vintage postcard. The profusion of erotic part-objects perverts the otherwise earnest image of the tomb of General Ulysses S. Grant, whose aura of phallic masculinity is deflated by Wilke’s irreverent, distinctly feminist additions.
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