COLLECTION NAME:
Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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ArtArtHiAAH~7~7
Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Image Record ID:
aahi0006090
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Work Title (display):
Woman Walks Into a Bar -- Is Raped by Four Men On a Pool Table While Twenty Men Watch
Work Title notes (display):
title from Lucy Lippard (image donor)
Image Title:
full view
Work Dates (display):
1983
Work Dates type:
creation
Image Date (display):
2010-03-09
Work Creator (display):
Sue Coe (English, born 1951)
Work Creator gender:
female
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female
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Work Creator notes (display):
English painter, draughtsman, etcher and mixed media artist. She studied at Chelsea School of Art, London (196871) and at the Royal College of Art (197073. After graduating she moved to New York, where she taught at the School of Visual Arts until 1978; she also began to illustrate for newspapers and magazines such as the New York Times. Coe made images that protested against social and political injustice, with early themes being the Ku Klux Klan and street violence, using an exaggerated, sometimes caricatured realism, as in The Klan (1976; see Paintings and Drawings, 1985). During the 1980s Coe's imagery became more expressionist, and she tackled subjects from US foreign policy to rape, for example US Military Successfully Bombs a Mental Hospital in Grenada (1984; New York, Met.). A theme that was to become dominant in the 1980s and the 1990s was the mistreatment of animals, both for scientific experimentation and food. Her book Dead Meat uses the mistreatment of animals as a microcosm of society, exploring the negative aspects of capitalism and greed in symbolic and graphic terms. During this period Coe's work became increasingly stark, using collage, drawing and painting in a style reminiscent of artists such as Otto Dix. Coe considers herself as more of a journalist than an artist and continues to make images for newspapers and magazines, protesting against wars, prejudice and inequality. (Grove Art Online Accessed 2006-07-28)
Work Creator UCB affiliation (display):
visiting artist, Visiting Artist Program, 1989 and 1999
Work Style Period:
Contemporary
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Contemporary
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Work Style Period:
20th century
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20th century
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Work Subject:
figures
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figures
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Work Subject:
alcohol
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alcohol
Work Subject
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Work Subject:
violence
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violence
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false
Work Subject:
women (female humans)
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women (female humans)
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Work Subject:
bars
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bars
Work Subject
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Work Subject:
social activism
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social activism
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
rape
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rape
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Work Worktype:
paintings (visual works)
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paintings (visual works)
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false
Work Category (VRC classification):
paintings
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paintings
Work Category (VRC classification)
false
Work Material and Technique (display):
mixed media on paper
Work Measurements (display):
113 in (W) x 92 in (H)
Image Rights (display):
© Sue Coe
Work Rights (display):
© Sue Coe
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Holding Institution:
University of Colorado at Boulder
Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Collection
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