"About Face: Andy Warhol Portraits".WADSWORTH ATHENEUM Warhol again? Too much is never enough. The Atheneum's Nicholas Baume assembles the Popist's portraiture portraiture, the art of representing the physical or psychological likeness of a real or imaginary individual. The principal portrait media are painting, drawing, sculpture, and photography. From earliest times the portrait has been considered a means to immortality. Many cultures have attributed magical properties to the portrait: symbolization of the majesty or authority of the subject, substitution for a deceased individual's living presence or theft of the - more than seventy paintings, prints, photographs, and films - from the '50s (Zsa Zsa Gabor's shoe) through the '80s (Debbie Harry's face). Catalogue essayists Douglas Crimp CRIMP - Centre for Research on Introduced Marine Pests (Australia) CRIMP - Community Road Improvement and Maintenance Project and Richard Meyer can be relied on to plumb the depths of the master of surfaces. His portraits, especially the late ones, have been rehabilitated posthumously; this exhibition should help us decide whether merit or market is responsible. Either way, Warhol's portraits (self or otherwise) keep the promise: I'll be your mirror. Sept. 24, 1999-Jan. 30, 2000; travels to Miami Art Museum, Mar. 24-June 4, 2000. |
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