Skip to main content
0
Info
Cady Noland

Tanya as a Bandit, 1989

Information about the artwork

  • MaterialSilk screen on aluminium, fabric
  • Dimensions180 x 120 x 2 cm
  • Year of acquisition1990
  • Inventory numberUAB 322
  • On viewCurrently not exhibited
  • Copyright© Cady Noland. Photo: Haydar Koyupinar, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich

More about the artwork

“Tanya as a Bandit” belongs to a group of works in which Cady Noland addressed the abduction of Patricia (Patty) Hearst. The daughter of a US media mogul was kidnapped in 1974 by the left-wing terrorist group Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA). However, she soon expressed solidarity with her kidnappers’ political causes. The staged photograph in front of an SLA flag with which Hearst announced her new identity as a militant fighter under the nom de guerre Tanya, circulated widely in the media after she had taken part in an armed bank robbery. Noland’s work simultaneously utilizes and criticizes the strategies of the tabloid press, which react to such news in a way that is as exaggerated as it is sensational.

Further artworks

Artwork: "John Cage (Black Mt. NC)" from Cy Twombly
Cy Twombly John Cage (Black Mt. NC), 1952
Artwork: "Odeion (Roma)" from Cy Twombly
Cy Twombly Odeion (Roma), 1960
Artwork: "Painting Detail and “By the Ionian Sea” Sculpture" from Cy Twombly
Cy Twombly Painting Detail and “By the Ionian Sea” Sculpture, o. J.
Artwork: "Museum Brandhorst" from Sauerbruch Hutton
Sauerbruch Hutton Museum Brandhorst
Artwork: "Christ $9.98 (negative)" from Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol Christ $9.98 (negative), 1985-86
Artwork: "Untitled (Roses)" from Cy Twombly
Cy Twombly Untitled (Roses), 2008
Artwork: "Untitled" from Jacqueline Humphries
Jacqueline Humphries Untitled, 2008
Artwork: "2 Paßstücke" from Franz West
Franz West 2 Paßstücke, 2003
Artwork: "C-A-N-V-A-S Painting 2" from Michael Krebber
Michael Krebber C-A-N-V-A-S Painting 2, 2011