Judith Bernstein: Dicks of Death

Author/Contributor(s):	Bernstein, Judith
Publisher:	Patrick Frey Edition
Date:	02/01/2017
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

For over ?ve decades, New Yorkbased feminist artist Judith Bernsteins most powerful and intense relationship has been with her work. As a graduate student at Yale in the 1960s, she began to use the phallus as a metaphor for feminism and male posturing. This is where Bernstein (b. 1942) became fascinated with explicit graf?ti that she discovered in mens bathrooms, ?nding inspiration in the raw humor and unedited scrawls. This in-your-face oversized monograph captures the graffiti influences, aggression and humor strongly represented within the body of her work from 1966 to 2016. Theres a gritty and visceral quality to these political drawings. The charcoal works represent an amalgamation of antiwar, feminism and sexuality. The art confronts the viewer with the urgency and complexity of human relationshipsissues that perpetually arise and tension that resonate from our origins to today. Includes installation photographs from Alex Zachary Gallery, NY; New Museum, NY; and Hauser & Wirth, London.