Title: Andy Warhol's Silver Elvises: Meaning through Context at the Ferus Gallery in 1963
Abstract: Both time and place played pivotal roles in the conception, installation, and intended meaning of the series of silver Elvises that Andy Warhol produced in the summer of 1963 for exhibition at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles. The appropriation of a banal publicity photograph indicates that Warhol's primary parodic target was the Hollywood Western, while the coupling of the series with portraits of Elizabeth Taylor echoed a similar gender binary found in the canonical work of Marcel Duchamp. As such, the silver Elvises constitute an important moment in Warhol's attempt to wed mass culture and vanguard art.
Publication Year: 2006
Publication Date: 2006-06-01
Language: en
Type: article
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