- Artist/Maker:
- Deborah Kass
- Bio:
- American, b. 1952
- Title:
- Six Blue Barbras (The Jewish Jackie Series)
- Date:
- 1992
- Medium:
- Screenprint and acrylic on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 30 1/2 × 24 × 1 1/2 in. (77.5 × 61 × 3.8 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Seth Cohen
- Accession Number:
- 2004-10
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Deborah Kass examines the tensions among popular culture, fine art, and identity. In her Warhol Project (1992-2000), Kass appropriated Warhol's techniques, colors, and compositions. Six Blue Barbras retroactively introduces Barbra Streisand to the pantheon of female celebrities portrayed by Warhol in the early 1960s. The project concluded with the ironic self-portrait Red Deb that re-created the Liz Taylor of Warhol's 1963 painting in the Kass's own image. The works boldly displace the art of a male predecessor into feminist narrative.
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