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Marking Time: Andy Warhol's Vision of Celebrations, Commemorations, and Anniversaries
Addresses an understudied yet highly significant aspect of the work of the influential artist Andy his exploration of anniversaries.
84 pages, Paperback
Published February 1, 2018
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August 23, 2018This is a catalog for a show at The Samuel Dorsky Museum Of Art at SUNY New Paltz (February-July 2018). Reva curated the exhibition, and assigned essays to her art history students. It's not written in "art gibberish" – you can actually understand it – and it's full of generously informative sentences:
A staple of advertising and commercialism, the [Brooklyn Bridge] has appeared on a diverse array of products, such as Doctor Scott's Electro-Medical Products, Royal Baking Powder, Coca-Cola, Singer sewing machines, and Absolut Vodka.
In 1823, the Archbishop of Cologne called for the restoration of the cathedral, and 638 years after construction had begun, in 1880, the structure was finally completed.
[Warhol] once remarked that an encounter with his "art past" – Castelli, Johns, Lichtenstein – made him anxious and depressed.
Peter Schjeldahl wrote about Warhol's portraits of Marilyn Monroe in 1968 (for the New York Times!): "They represent the furthest tragic extension of the glamour process, the extinction of the person in the image."
A staple of advertising and commercialism, the [Brooklyn Bridge] has appeared on a diverse array of products, such as Doctor Scott's Electro-Medical Products, Royal Baking Powder, Coca-Cola, Singer sewing machines, and Absolut Vodka.
In 1823, the Archbishop of Cologne called for the restoration of the cathedral, and 638 years after construction had begun, in 1880, the structure was finally completed.
[Warhol] once remarked that an encounter with his "art past" – Castelli, Johns, Lichtenstein – made him anxious and depressed.
Peter Schjeldahl wrote about Warhol's portraits of Marilyn Monroe in 1968 (for the New York Times!): "They represent the furthest tragic extension of the glamour process, the extinction of the person in the image."
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