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This poster comes from the Guerrilla Girls’ Portfolio Compleat, a set of 109 posters, books, videos, and ephemera created between 1985 and 2016, representing over thirty years of the group’s activity.
Founded in 1985, the Guerrilla Girls are an anonymous collective of women artists who create protest art to expose gender- and race-based discrimination in the art world and broader cultural sphere. Wearing gorilla masks and drawing on tactics of guerrilla warfare and marketing, the group formed in response to the Museum of Modern Art’s 1984 exhibition An International Survey of Painting and Sculpture. The exhibition included works by 165 artists, only thirteen of whom were women and none of whom were people of color. During public appearances, group members maintain their anonymity and raise the profiles of deceased women artists by adopting pseudonyms such as Käthe Kollwitz, Gertrude Stein, and Frida Kahlo. Calling themselves the “conscience of the art world,” the Guerrilla Girls continue to decry museums, galleries, private collectors, and even Hollywood for failures of inclusion and representation.
The Guerrilla Girls' printed materials appropriate both the visual language and strategies of street advertising. Their printed campaigns use bold text, comedic images, and pop culture references in order to widely disseminate their message in an accessible, public manner.
Adapted from
- Katherine Brodbeck, Label text, The Guerrilla Girls, 2018.
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Exhibited here is a selection of works from the Guerrilla Girls’ Portfolio Compleat, a set of 109 posters, books, videos, and ephemera created between 1985 and 2016, representing over thirty years of the group’s activity.
Founded in 1985, the Guerrilla Girls are an anonymous collective of women artists who create protest art to expose gender- and race- based discrimination in the art world and broader cultural sphere. Wearing gorilla masks and drawing on tactics of guerrilla warfare and marketing, the group formed in response to the Museum of Modern Art’s 1984 exhibition An International Survey of Painting and Sculpture. The exhibition included works by 165 artists, only thirteen of whom were women and none of whom were people of color. During public appearances, group members maintain their anonymity and raise the profiles of deceased women artists by adopting pseudonyms such as Käthe Kollwitz, Gertrude Stein, and Frida Kahlo. Calling themselves the“conscience of the art world,” the Guerrilla Girls continue to decry museums, galleries, private collectors, and even Hollywood for failures of inclusion and representation.
In the posters on view, the Guerrilla Girls appropriated both the visual language and strategies of street advertising. Their printed campaigns use bold text, comedic images, and pop culture references in order to widely disseminate their message in an accessible, public manner.
Katherine Brodbeck, Label text, The Guerrilla Girls, 2018.
Label text for archiving purposes.
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Guerrilla Girls: ULAN: 500128502
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advertisements: AAT: 300193993
anonymity: DMA
books: AAT: 300028051
discrimination: AAT: 300055301
ephemeral art: AAT: 300387639
gender (sociological concept): AAT: 300411835
gender role: AAT: 300055147
gorillas: AAT: 300249076
guerrilla warfare (wars / armed conflicts): AAT: 300055316
humor: AAT: 300055927
irony: AAT: 300055900
performance art: AAT: 300121445
political art: AAT: 300256621
popular culture: AAT: 300055794
posters: AAT: 300027221
pseudonyms: AAT: 300404657
race (group of people): AAT: 300256475
racial discrimination: AAT: 300055304
representations: AAT: 300069747
sex discrimination: AAT: 300055305
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1985-n.d.: The Guerrilla Girls
n.d.-2017: Kaleta A. Doolin, Dallas, TX
2017: Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Kaleta A. Doolin
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- Guerrilla Girls~Visit the collective's website to see a complete chronology of their performances, workshops, and posters, and to learn more about their ongoing work.
- Tate Kids~Explore this family-friendly guide to the Guerrilla Girls and their work.
- Dallas Museum of Art~Review the DMA's 2018 exhibition of a selection from the Guerrilla Girls' Portfolio Compleat.
- YouTube~View the Guerrilla Girls' Guide to Behaving Badly, 2016.
- PBS Digital Studios~Learn about the Art of Complaining with the Guerrilla Girls.
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General Description
This poster comes from the Guerrilla Girls’ Portfolio Compleat, a set of 109 posters, books, videos, and ephemera created between 1985 and 2016, representing over thirty years of the group’s activity.
Founded in 1985, the Guerrilla Girls are an anonymous collective of women artists who create protest art to expose gender- and race-based discrimination in the art world and broader cultural sphere. Wearing gorilla masks and drawing on tactics of guerrilla warfare and marketing, the group formed in response to the Museum of Modern Art’s 1984 exhibition An International Survey of Painting and Sculpture. The exhibition included works by 165 artists, only thirteen of whom were women and none of whom were people of color. During public appearances, group members maintain their anonymity and raise the profiles of deceased women artists by adopting pseudonyms such as Käthe Kollwitz, Gertrude Stein, and Frida Kahlo. Calling themselves the “conscience of the art world,” the Guerrilla Girls continue to decry museums, galleries, private collectors, and even Hollywood for failures of inclusion and representation.
The Guerrilla Girls' printed materials appropriate both the visual language and strategies of street advertising. Their printed campaigns use bold text, comedic images, and pop culture references in order to widely disseminate their message in an accessible, public manner.
Adapted from
- Katherine Brodbeck, Label text, The Guerrilla Girls, 2018.
Fun Facts
Archival Resources
Web Resources
- Guerrilla Girls~Visit the collective's website to see a complete chronology of their performances, workshops, and posters, and to learn more about their ongoing work.
- Tate Kids~Explore this family-friendly guide to the Guerrilla Girls and their work.
- Dallas Museum of Art~Review the DMA's 2018 exhibition of a selection from the Guerrilla Girls' Portfolio Compleat.
- YouTube~View the Guerrilla Girls' Guide to Behaving Badly, 2016.
- PBS Digital Studios~Learn about the Art of Complaining with the Guerrilla Girls.
Notes
Exhibited here is a selection of works from the Guerrilla Girls’ Portfolio Compleat, a set of 109 posters, books, videos, and ephemera created between 1985 and 2016, representing over thirty years of the group’s activity.
Founded in 1985, the Guerrilla Girls are an anonymous collective of women artists who create protest art to expose gender- and race- based discrimination in the art world and broader cultural sphere. Wearing gorilla masks and drawing on tactics of guerrilla warfare and marketing, the group formed in response to the Museum of Modern Art’s 1984 exhibition An International Survey of Painting and Sculpture. The exhibition included works by 165 artists, only thirteen of whom were women and none of whom were people of color. During public appearances, group members maintain their anonymity and raise the profiles of deceased women artists by adopting pseudonyms such as Käthe Kollwitz, Gertrude Stein, and Frida Kahlo. Calling themselves the“conscience of the art world,” the Guerrilla Girls continue to decry museums, galleries, private collectors, and even Hollywood for failures of inclusion and representation.
In the posters on view, the Guerrilla Girls appropriated both the visual language and strategies of street advertising. Their printed campaigns use bold text, comedic images, and pop culture references in order to widely disseminate their message in an accessible, public manner.
Katherine Brodbeck, Label text, The Guerrilla Girls, 2018.
Label text for archiving purposes.
Catalogue essays
Artist/designers
Guerrilla Girls: ULAN: 500128502
Cultures
Geography
United States (nation): TGN: 7012149
Process/materials
Historical periods
Individuals
Subject terms
advertisements: AAT: 300193993
anonymity: DMA
books: AAT: 300028051
discrimination: AAT: 300055301
ephemeral art: AAT: 300387639
gender (sociological concept): AAT: 300411835
gender role: AAT: 300055147
gorillas: AAT: 300249076
guerrilla warfare (wars / armed conflicts): AAT: 300055316
humor: AAT: 300055927
irony: AAT: 300055900
performance art: AAT: 300121445
political art: AAT: 300256621
popular culture: AAT: 300055794
posters: AAT: 300027221
pseudonyms: AAT: 300404657
race (group of people): AAT: 300256475
racial discrimination: AAT: 300055304
representations: AAT: 300069747
sex discrimination: AAT: 300055305
RELATED OBJECTS
PROVENANCE
1985-n.d.: The Guerrilla Girls
n.d.-2017: Kaleta A. Doolin, Dallas, TX
2017: Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Kaleta A. Doolin
The main source for this provenance is information already entered in TMS.
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