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Showing posts with label andy warhol. Show all posts
9 Jan 2025

Colour Her Gone: In Memory of Pauline Boty

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Pauline Boty (1938-1966)  photographed in 1962   'Actresses often have tiny brains. Painters often have large beards.  Imagine a brainy...
25 Jul 2024

Pop-Pop-Pop-Popgun

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Andy Warhol: Guns (1981-1982) The Andy Warhol Museum , Pittsburgh   I.    Longtime readers will recall that I have written about hoplophili...
29 Mar 2024

Piss Artists 1: Andy Warhol (Piss and Oxidation Paintings)

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Cover of the exhibition catalogue  Gallerie Daniel Blau (Munich) 6 March - 13 May 1998     I.    For most British people, a piss artist is...
4 Sept 2023

A Brief History of the Mug Shot From Alphonse Bertillon to Andy Warhol

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Top: Alphonse Bertillon's self-taken mugshot (1900) Bottom: A canvas from Andy Warhol's Most Wanted Men series (1964)   I.    Tha...
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2 Sept 2023

On the Evil Genius of the Image: Notes on the Mugshots of Donald Trump and Hermann Göring

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Mugshots of Donald Trump (24 August, 2023)  and Hermann Göring (22 June 1945)     So much has already been said about Donald Trump's in...
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3 Apr 2023

In Memory of Georgia Brown (1933-1992)

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Georgia Brown as seen in A Study in Terror   (dir. James Hill, 1965)   "A carefree, goodtime girl you see / Queen of swell society ......
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29 Mar 2023

Reflections on Andy Warhol's Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century (1980)

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Andy Warhol: Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century (1980)  Top row: Franz Kafka, Gertrude Stein, Martin Buber, Albert Einstein and...
14 Mar 2021

Picture This: In Praise of the Photo Booth

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  Although we might trace the history of the photo booth back to the late 19th-century, I think it's fair to say that what most people...
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23 Feb 2020

Forever Dead and Lovely: Notes on Melanie Pullen's High Fashion Crime Scenes

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Melanie Pullen: Untitled (ELLE) , 2014  From the series High Fashion Crime Scenes (2003-17) melaniepullen.com If, like me...
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29 May 2019

Simian Aesthetics 1: The Case of Congo the Chimp

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Congo and one of his more mature works Everyone knows that monkeys make great copyists. We even have a verb in English, to ape , m...
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17 Nov 2018

Decorating the World with David Bromley

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Anglo-Aussie artist David Bromley, who is best known for his images of youngsters that nostalgically recreate a memory (or fantasy) ...
8 Oct 2018

On Goya's Red Boy

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Goya: Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zúñiga (1787-88) Commonly referred to as Goya's Red Boy Commissioned by an aristocratic ...
5 Oct 2018

Wigging Out with Andy Warhol

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Andy Warhol:  Self-Portrait   from the  Fright Wig   series  (1986) I. A wig is a head covering made from human or animal...
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5 Jun 2018

Andy Warhol's Decorated Penis

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  Andy Warhol: Decorated Penis (c. 1957) According to the critic Michael Moon, much of the revisionary queer power of Warhol'...
14 Apr 2017

Steven Shaviro on Warhol's Failure to Make Space

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Someone recently compared me to Steven Shaviro, the American philosopher and cultural critic. Whether this comparison flatters, insults...