Hannah Wilke
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Hannah Wilke (March 7, 1940 - January 28, 1993; born Arlene Hannah Butter in New York City) was an American painter, sculptor and photographer associated with Conceptual Art, Performance art and Post-Minimalism. Her work explored issues of gender and the body.
A forerunner and practitioner of feminist art, Wilke created signature terra cotta and clay sculptures using vaginal iconography beginning in the late fifties and early sixties.
June 15, 1976 Wilke performed a striptease behind Marcel Duchamp's The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass) at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Dressed in a fedora and a white suit.
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