This week I will mostly be writing an essay on appropriation, and today I discovered the work of Elaine Sturtevant.
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| Haring Tag, 1986 |
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| Warhol Flowers, 1964 |
In 1991, Sturtevant presented an entire show consisting of her repetition of Warhol’s ‘Flowers’ series. In the mid-60s, she asked Warhol for the original silkscreen with which he had made his ‘Flowers’ - an image he appropriated, not uninterestingly, from a Kodak ad - to make hers. Warhol gave her the screen. At a later date, after being bombarded with questions about his process and technique, Warhol responded: "I don’t know. Ask Elaine."
