Confessions of the Guerrilla Girls / by the Guerrilla Girls themselves (whoever they really are) ; with an essay by Whitney Chadwick

Since 1985, A Group Of Anonymous Women Wearing Gorilla Masks And Brandishing Glue Brushes Have Taken Zap Actions At The Art World's Stale, Male, Yale Establishment. Their Wonderfully Smart-ass Posters (example: Advantages Of Being A Woman Artist: Working Without The Pressure Of Success, Knowing Your Career Might Pick Up After You're Eighty ... ) Have Bedecked City Walls, Converted Elitist Curators, Become Collector's Items, And Even Found Their Way Into Museum Collections. Their Work - And This Book - Offers Proof That Humor Is A Great, Blunt-edged Weapon Against Evil. The Guerrilla Girls Are A Collective Of Female Artists And Art-world Professionals. Their Largest Contingent Is In New York, But They Have Also Been Sighted All Over The United States, Across Europe, And Wherever Truth, Justice, And The American Way Of Discrimination Still Prevail. Women Who Run With The Brushes And Glue / Whitney Chadwick -- Guerilla Girls Bare All : An Interview -- Stick 'em Up : Posters & Projects, 1985-1994 -- Love Letters & Hate Male -- Spreading Jungle Fever -- Postcards. "Since 1985, a group of anonymous women wearing gorilla masks and brandishing glue brushes have taken zap actions at the art world's "stale, male, Yale" establishment. Their wonderfully smart-ass posters (example: "Advantages of being a woman artist: Working without the pressure of success, knowing your career might pick up after you're eighty...") have bedecked city walls, converted elitist curators, become collector's items, and even found their way into museum collections. Their work - and this book - offers proof that humor is a great, blunt-edged weapon against evil."--BOOK JACKET. "The Guerrilla Girls are a collective of female artists and art-world professionals. Their largest contingent is in New York, but they have also been sighted all over the United States, across Europe, and wherever truth, justice, and the American way of discrimination still prevail."--BOOK JACKET Content: Women who run with the brushes and glue: essay / Whitney Chadwick -- Guerrilla Girls bare all: an interview -- Stick 'em up: posters & projects, 1985-1994 -- Love letters & hate mail -- Spreading jungle fever -- Postcards. Abstract: A raucous, colorful showcase of the nationwide poster campaign waged against discrimination and inequalities in the art world--by a collective of female artists, graphic designers, and art-world professionals whose identities have never been revealed. More than 135 color illustrations; 4 tear-out postcard sheets. � Read more... Fifty posters and a self-interview augment documentation of ten years of the hit-and-run feminist campaign against sexism, racism, and elitism in the art world and in our culture at large. Original. $30,000 ad/promo. Tour.