Woman Crying (Comic) #26
2020
Anne Collier's "Woman Crying (Comic) #26" appropriates imagery from vintage comic book panels, isolating and enlarging a female figure in emotional distress to examine how mass media has historically depicted and commodified women's vulnerability. The work combines photography and printing techniques to present the comic source material as a fine art subject, questioning the gap between popular culture representation and artistic legitimacy. By presenting this banal commercial image without irony or commentary, Collier invites viewers to reconsider the emotional labor and objectification embedded in everyday visual culture.
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale
October 11, 2024
Lot 147
Artists in conversation
Roy Lichtenstein
American · b. 1923
Lichtenstein famously appropriated comic book imagery including crying women rendered in Ben-Day dots, directly paralleling Collier's focus on mass media depictions of female emotional vulnerability elevated to fine art status.
Barbara Kruger
American · b. 1945
Kruger appropriates found imagery from mass media and popular culture to critically examine how commercial and print media construct and commodify femininity, sharing Collier's feminist interrogation of representation through photographic and graphic source material.
Cindy Sherman
American · b. 1954
Sherman's photographic practice consistently examines how popular culture and media stereotypes frame and commodify women's emotional states and vulnerability, directly aligning with Collier's critical lens on mass media representations of femininity.
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