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This
exhibition explored the celebrity of popular, cultural icons,
and the relationship of self-representation and cultural
identification. Organized by the Newcomb Art gallery and
curated by Tulane Associate Professor of Art history, Michael
Plante, it featured a representative selection of richly
colored and seductively beautiful works from Deborah Kass'
appropriations of Andy Warhol's now classic Pop Art formats.
By substituting a range of Jewish, female and lesbian subjects
into Warhol's familiar picture forms - such as Barba Streisand
for Jackie Kennedy, Gertrude Stein for Robert Rauschenberg,
and Cindy Sherman for Liza Minnelli - Kass challenges the
stereotypes embedded in warhol's pantheon of beauty and
power to question the existence of a fixed identity of self
and culture.
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