Oral history interview with Guerrilla Girls Jane Bowles and Alma Thomas

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Oral history interview with Guerrilla Girls Jane Bowles and Alma Thomas

2008 May 8

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An interview with Guerrilla Girls using the names Jane Bowles and Alma Thomas, conducted 2008 May 8, by Judith Olch Richards, for the Archives of American Art, at an undisclosed location, in New York, N.Y.

Sound recording, master: 2 sound discs (1 hr., 41 min.) digital; 2 5/8 in.

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Guerrilla Girls (Group of artists)

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The Guerrilla Girls formed in 1985 as an anonymous group determined to fight sexism in the art world. Their initial strategy was to put up protest posters during the night in the Soho neighborhood of Manhattan. What residents saw in the morning were statistics printed in black on white paper, and the numbers spoke for themselves: that only one woman had had a solo exhibition in a New York Museum in the previous year; that fewer than 10% of artists shown in top galleri...

Richards, Judith Olch

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