Image record
Marilyn Diptych
Warhol's 1962 silkscreen of fifty Marilyns, each slightly different, the image degrading across copies, used for the fork problem.
Unverifieddraft
- Creator
- andy-warhol
- Created
- 1962
- Medium
- Held by
- Tate, London
- Rights
- fair dealingMarilyn Diptych, Andy Warhol, 1962
The essay's central visual argument: the original dissolves into its reproductions until there is no real one left to hold accountable, only the pattern repeating.
Warhol died in 1987, so this remains in copyright until the end of 2057, and the Warhol Foundation is an unusually active rights holder. Of all the images in this collection, this is the one whose reuse position most warrants care.
Links to
- created by
- Andy Warhol
- used in
- You Can't Shame a Fork
Referenced by
- illustrated by
- You Can't Shame a Fork
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