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ID: 700009235
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009235
Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1 2
Self-Portrait as Nice White Lady (photograph; Adrian Piper (American conceptual artist, born 1948); 1995; Studio Museum in Harlem (New York City, New York state, Unit...; 04.2.5)
Note: A self-portrait of the artist. The photograph is overlaid on a red background, and the words "Wutchoo lookin at, mofo" are captured in a thought bubble towards the top left. Piper, typically read as a black artist who can pass for white, challenges assumptions about her work, and the complexities of racial passing.
Titles:
Self-Portrait as Nice White Lady (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)
Catalog Level: item
Work Types:
photograph [300046300] (preferred)
..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)
self-portrait [300124534]
..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>, portraits)

Classifications:
photographs (preferred)

Creation Date: 1995

Creator Display:
Adrian Piper (American conceptual artist, born 1948) [preferred]
creator Piper, Adrian (American conceptual artist, born 1948) [500024467]
Locations:
Current: Studio Museum in Harlem (New York City, New York state, United States) [500303655] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)
Repository Numbers: 04.2.5
Credit Line: Museum purchase made possible by a gift from Barbara Karp Shuster, New York
Display Materials: oil crayon on black-and-white photograph
oil pastels [300230810]
.......(Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name), equipment, <equipment by process>, image-making equipment, <equipment for drafting| drawing| and writing>, <drafting| drawing and writing equipment by specific type>, crayons (drawing material))
black-and-white photographs [300128347]
.......(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, photographs, <photographs by form>, <photographs by form: color>)
drawings (visual works) [300033973]
.......(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Dimensions: 18 1/4 × 14 1/4 in (46.4 × 36.2 cm)
Cultures:
American (preferred)

Style/Period/Group/Movement:
Conceptual [300264827] (preferred,N/A)
.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by region>, <international post-1945 styles and movements>, <post-1945 fine arts styles and movements>)

General Subject:
portraits (preferred)

Specific Subjects:
self-portrait [300124534]
.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>, portraits) (AAT)
bust (general, figure) [300047457]
.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>, figures (representations), <figures by portion represented>) (AAT)
race (group of people) [300256475]
.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), <culture and related concepts>, culture-related concepts) (AAT)

Copyright: © Adrian Piper Research Archive Foundation Berlin
Inscriptions: upper right: WHUT CHOO / LOOKIN AT,/ MOFO
List/Hierarchical Position:
..... Movable Works
.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media
Sources and Contributors:
Self-Portrait as Nice White Lady........ [VP]
........ Studio Museum in Harlem [online] (2017-) accessed 26 January 2017
........ Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) [online] (2010-) mo.ma/adrianpiper, accessed 31 May 2018
Subject: ....... [VP]
....................... Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) [online] (2010-) mo.ma/adrianpiper, accessed 31 May 2018
....................... Studio Museum in Harlem [online] (2017-) accessed 26 January 2017
Note:
English ..... [VP]
..... Studio Museum in Harlem [online] (2017-) accessed 26 January 2017
..... Bowles, Adrian Piper (2011) 16
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