• multiple
  • offset-printed
  • black-and-white
  • 15.5 x 8 x 8 cm.
  • edition size 365
  • signed and numbered

Can

Hannah Wilke

description

Multiple produced by Hannah Wilke as part of her "Give: Hannah Wilke Can - A Living Sculpture Needs to Make a Living," 1978, performance / installation. Can features topless photographs of Wilke draped in sheet. "In 'Hannah Wilke Can,' the beautiful woman, the charismatic, speaks of the need for love and this coupled with the self assertion 'I can support myself,' 'I can support Venus, love and beauty.' Wilke counters the 'femininity' of control and perfection because she does not use beauty as a trick to cover up emotion. The beauty's face in art and the media is often bland in order to divest her character or feeling, so that viewers can project their own desire on the woman." -- Johanne Frueh, "Hannah Wilke : A Retrospective."

New York, NY: Hannah Wilke,
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