Untitled
Like the lute and violin, the guitar’s sensual body and phallic neck render it at once male and female. This blatantly sexual corporality has elicited fetishization, as in the work of the French illustrator and author Tomi Ungerer.
Artwork Details
- Title: Untitled
- Artist: Tomi Ungerer (French, born Strasbourg, 1931)
- Date: 1969
- Medium: Lithograph
- Dimensions: 14.5 x 11.5 in
- Classification: Drawings
- Credit Line: Department of Musical Instruments, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- Curatorial Department: Musical Instruments
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