Gran Fury

Sexism Rears Its Unprotected Head
1988

A black and white poster with bold text stating "SEXISM REARS ITS UNPROTECTED HEAD" at the top and "MEN: Use Condoms Or Beat It." at the bottom. The central image is a stylized, high-contrast photograph of a phallic object. Below the central text, it reads "AIDS KILLS WOMEN" followed by "SPRING AIDS ACTION '88: Nine days of nationwide AIDS related actions & protests." The artist's signature, "Gran Fury," is in the lower right corner.

A black and white poster with bold text stating "SEXISM REARS ITS UNPROTECTED HEAD" at the top and "MEN: Use Condoms Or Beat It." at the bottom. The central image is a stylized, high-contrast photograph of a phallic object. Below the central text, it reads "AIDS KILLS WOMEN" followed by "SPRING AIDS ACTION '88: Nine days of nationwide AIDS related actions & protests." The artist's signature, "Gran Fury," is in the lower right corner.

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Date
1988

Classification
Prints

Medium
Poster, photocopy on paper

Dimensions
Sheet: 17 × 11in. (43.2 × 27.9 cm) Image: 16 1/2 × 10 1/2in. (41.9 × 26.7 cm)

Accession number
2018.122

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Gran Fury

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

API
artworks/59736

Exhibitions

An Incomplete History of Protest: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1940–2017

Aug 18, 2017–Aug 27, 2018

Gran Fury
7 works in the collection

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