A retrospective at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation shows how Hannah Wilke made bodily experience the center of her work, from sexual pleasure to illness and death.
While critics have never dared question the seriousness of Hannah Wilke's work concerning cancer, her earlier work was regularly dismissed as that of a narcissistic pretty woman who was neither…
Hannah Wilke (1940-1993) is best known for her performative work: the “Starification Object Series,” begun in 1974, in which she photographed herself with vaginal-shaped pieces of chewed gum stuck to…