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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 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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Title: Grant's Tomb, New York
Artist:
Hannah Wilke (American, New York 1940–1993 Houston, Texas)
Date: 1976
Medium: Collage of kneaded erasers, found offset lithograph postcard, and white opaque matte paint on board, mounted on 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
Object Number: 1983.539.1
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