Andy Warhol
American artist, whose Marilyn Diptych the essay uses for identity dissolving into its reproductions.
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Artist identity, American career and lifespan 1928–1987.
- The Andy Warhol Museum — Andy Warhol’s Life
Artist identity, American career and lifespan 1928–1987.
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The Marilyn Diptych supplies the essay's central image for the fork problem: fifty Marilyns, each slightly different, the image degrading across copies, with no original left to point at.
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- You Can't Shame a Fork
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- Marilyn Diptych
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