{"product_id":"sturtevant-book-patricia-lee-9781846381638","title":"Sturtevant","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn illustrated examination of a work--a Warhol that isn't by Warhol--that embodies a shift in attitudes about artistic authorship and originality.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWarhol Marilyn\u003c\/i\u003e (1965) is not a work by Andy Warhol but by the artist Elaine Sturtevant (1930-2014). Throughout her career, Sturtevant (as she preferred to be called) remade and exhibited works by other contemporary artists, among them Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, and Robert Rauschenberg. For \u003ci\u003eWarhol Marilyn\u003c\/i\u003e, Sturtevant used one of Warhol's own silkscreens from his series of Marilyn printed multiples. (When asked how he made his silkscreened work, Warhol famously answered, I don't know. Ask Elaine.) In this book, Patricia Lee examines \u003ci\u003eWarhol Marilyn\u003c\/i\u003e as representing a shift in thinking about artistic authorship and originality, highlighting a decisive moment in the rethinking of the contemporary artwork.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLee describes the cognitive dissonance a viewer might feel on learning the identity of \u003ci\u003eWarhol Marilyn\u003c\/i\u003e's author, and explains that mistaken identity is part of Sturtevant's intention for the operation of the work. She discusses the ways that Sturtevant's methodology went against the grain of a certain interpretation of modernism, and addresses the cultural significance of both Warhol and Monroe as celebrity figures. She considers Dorothy Podber's shooting a bullet through a stack of Warhol's \u003ci\u003eMarilyns\u003c\/i\u003e (thereafter known as \u003ci\u003eThe Shot Marilyns\u003c\/i\u003e) at the Factory in 1964 and its possible influence on Sturtevant's decision to remake the work. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLee writes that Sturtevant's critical reception has been informed by some fictional forebears: the made-up artist Hank Herron (whose nonexistent work duplicating paintings by Frank Stella was reviewed by a fictional critic), and (suggested by Sturtevant herself) Pierre Menard, the title character of Jorge Luis Borges's Pierre Menard, Author of the\u003ci\u003e Quixote\u003c\/i\u003e, who recreates a section of Cervantes's masterpiece line by line. And finally, she explores installation contexts and display strategies for Sturtevant's work as illuminating her broader artistic aims and principles.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49568175292689,"sku":"GOR011977512","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49736496120081,"sku":"NGR9781846381638","price":23.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50555912061201,"sku":"GOR013141713","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1846381630.jpg?v=1750963880","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/sturtevant-book-patricia-lee-9781846381638","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}