Grant's Tomb, New York

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.

Grant's Tomb, New York, Hannah Wilke (American, New York 1940–1993 Houston, Texas), Offset lithograph postcard and kneaded eraser on painted cardboard and wood

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