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 (groups 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