Author Question: The creators of Do Women Have to Be Naked to Get into the Met. Museum? play with multiple words in ... (Read 52 times)

Jramos095 · **on:** Jun 23, 2018

The creators of Do Women Have to Be Naked to Get into the Met. Museum? play with multiple words in multiple ways to identity themselves. How so?

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

What does the man's cap symbolize in From Spaniard and Black, Mulatto?

What will be an ideal response?

durant1234 · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 23, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Answer: The ideal answer should include:
1. Guerrilla refers to their covert actions carried out as an anonymous group but also carries the connotation of revolutionary soldiers acting outside the sanctions of an official army, just as women artists are forced to operate outside official museums.
2. Gorilla is a homonym (sounds like) for Guerrilla, showing up as the head of the nude and the voice asking the question in the poster's imagery.
3. Girl is a near homonym for gorilla and guerrilla and plays with the sexist use of girls for women in common speech but is used ironically by the women artists.

Answer to Question 2

Answer: The ideal answer should include:
1. his white racial identity
2. his position as head of the family