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...writes about identity and, like the protagonist in her 1996 novel Mona in the Promised Land, much of her life has been a struggle to define herself...
...sequel that followed, Mona in the Promised Land, continued the story from the perspective of the family’s teenage daughter as she converts to Judaism...
Goya and images of women? We may suppose we know something about that, having seen The Naked Maja, 1797-1800, one of the most famous woman images in art next to the Mona Lisa: the second most famous nude in Spain after Velazquez's Rokeby Venus, and the first with pubic hair. She was not, by the way, the Duchess of Alba, with whom--contrary to legend--Goya almost certainly had no sexual affair. She, like her companion piece The Clothed Maja, 1800-05, was most probably a Malagan cutie named Pepita Tudo, the mistress of Prime Minister Manuel Godoy...
From small ads he moved on to multiple images of Coke bottles, green trading stamps, Campbell's soup cans and human beings. Thirty Are Better Than One (1963) presents 30 - count 'em - stacked Mona Lisas. In the same room are multiples of Monroe, Elvis Presley, the Statue of Liberty and Elizabeth Taylor. Warhol first painted Monroe after her suicide in August 1962. Instead of a recent photograph, he used a film still from nearly 10 years before. The flat silk-screen technique crookedly applies green eyeshadow and scarlet lipstick, like a magazine illustration of this season's makeup trends. Warhol...
...pensive gaze of Liz Taylor, Monroe's heavy-lidded glance and the Mona Lisa's enigmatic leer recall the direct eye contact of the Catholic icons of Christ, the Madonna and saints that Warhol grew up with. Catholic imagery is also full of death and grisly executions, subjects that possessed Warhol during the '60s. Darkness hangs over Room 9 (Disasters) as the mushroom cloud of Atomic Bomb (1963) hung over the decade. In images adapted from anonymous news photos, rioters are attacked by police dogs. Women die in car wrecks or from poisoned tuna fish. The broken body...