Summarize the Guerrilla Girls' intentions and their methods for achieving them
What will be an ideal response?
Essay responses should include these points:
• The Guerilla Girls are an anonymous group whose intent is to raise awareness of the limited number of women artists whose work is displayed at the major museums and galleries.
• The intent is to promote women artists fairly, alongside accomplishments of male artists.
• The Guerrilla Girls publically posted the number of male artists displayed and the number of female artists displayed—at that time, only one female artist was featured at the MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) in New York.
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