Grant's Tomb, New York
Hannah Wilke
1976 · Offset lithograph postcard and kneaded eraser on painted cardboard and wood · Modern and Contemporary Art
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.
- Artist
- Hannah Wilke
- Date
- 1976
- Medium
- Offset lithograph postcard and kneaded eraser on painted cardboard and wood
- Department
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Credit line
- Gift of Don Goddard, in memory of Selma Butter, 1983
