'Take That You Bastard' (1972) - Wilja, hammer on board
From the prominent feminist artist/potato farmer Karen Duck comes this treatise on the gender politics of the day. The hammer violence brought to bear on the formerly dick-shaped potato gives the viewer a sense of warmth and security. Notice how the mashed remains resemble both a vitriolic revenge attack on a totem of manhood and yet, conversely, male ejaculate which would imply a sense of welcoming the brutality; thoroughly confusing the issue. It provokes the viewer.
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