Guerrilla Girls: When Art is the Question

In the eighties, the Guerrilla Girls decided to incorporate new strategies to the feminism of the seventies, such as humour and stridence, wit and laughter. Although still influenced by the pioneering work of artists such as Judy Chicago and art critic Lucy Lippard denouncing the invisibility of women in the art world, the fresh language used by the Guerrilla Girls to address the public at large can be seen as a turning point.

The text looms large, but is used in the form of a question or metaphor, in the first person, or combined with succinct but forceful statistical data. Adopting the strategies of so-called ‘guerrilla’ communication, they use elements designed to reach a wide public and ensure that their messages are heard.

WORKS IN THE COLLECTION BY GUERRILLA GIRLS

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Republicans Do Believe in a Woman’s Right to Control Her Own Body!

1992

Guerrilla Girls (Grup d’artistes)

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Do Women Have to Be Naked to Get into the Met. Museum?

1989

Guerrilla Girls (Grup d’artistes)

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It’s Even Worse in Europe

1986

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The Birth of Feminism

[2001]

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