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Eating Bananas Outside the National Museum

Unlimited Semiosis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2021

Joanna Krakowska
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Abstract

The banana protest, a mass reenactment of Consumer Art (1972), a series of photographs by Natalia LL that was removed from the National Museum in April 2019, was staged as a grassroots protest against this act of censorship and the Polish conservative government’s “decency” policy as well as the underrepresentation of women’s art in museums and galleries.

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TDR , Volume 65 , Issue 4 , December 2021 , pp. 131 - 146
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© The Author(s) 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press for Tisch School of the Arts/NYU

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