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10 Trashy Ideas about the Environment from the portfolio: Guerrilla Girls’ Most Wanted: 1985–2008
10 Trashy Ideas about the Environment from the portfolio: Guerrilla Girls’ Most Wanted: 1985–2008
© Guerrilla Girls. Courtesy www.guerrillagirls.com. Photo by Peter Paul Geoffrion.

10 Trashy Ideas about the Environment from the portfolio: Guerrilla Girls’ Most Wanted: 1985–2008

Artist (Artist collective, active 1985–present)
Date1995 (printed 2008)
MediumOffset lithograph on plastic bag
DimensionsSheet: 12 1/8 x 9 inches (30.8 x 22.9 cm)
ClassificationsPrint
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number2011.6.1.19
Collections
  • ART OF THE UNITED STATES
  • MODERN & CONTEMPORARY
  • WORKS ON PAPER
Edition50
State8
Label TextThe Guerrilla Girls, a collective whose anonymous members wear gorilla masks to conceal their identities, subvert notions of individual authorship as they jointly fight for equality in the arts and society. Using various printing techniques often in poster or billboard format, they alert wide audiences to the exclusion of marginalized communities from museums, galleries, and the pages of art magazines. Their activism also includes criticism of Hollywood and politics, with a strong focus on gender equality. The Guerrilla Girls’ use of bold typefaces, lists, and bright graphics draws attention to and clearly outlines their positions on subjects ranging from reproductive rights to the environment. Though most of the works from this portfolio are more than twenty years old and many of the statistics outdated, the issues they combat remain widespread throughout the United States today.