Guerrilla Girls / Virginia Woolf and the Hogarth Press
1 Apr – 6 Sep

© Guerrilla Girls
courtesy guerrillagirls.com
Do women need to be naked to get into the Met Museum? Well, in 1989 it seems they did: there were more nude paintings of women than women painters represented in New York’s institutional art museum, as anonymous feminist collective The Guerilla Girls pointed out in their famous campaign. Charleston is showcasing works from the group’s 40-year career as art provocateurs. This sits alongside a companion exhibition highlighting Virginia Woolf’s equally radical work as a publisher and printer at the Hogarth Press, which she ran with husband Leonard from 1917 to 1946. Original handprinted editions, including TS Eliot’s The Waste Land, reveal how Woolf used the press to challenge literary and social conventions from the inside out.
