{"product_id":"19997-warhol-andy-signed-marilyn-monroe-cover-tate-gallery-exhibition-booklet","title":"Warhol, Andy. (1928–1987) Signed Marilyn Monroe Cover Tate Gallery Exhibition Booklet","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e8vo. 100 pp. Exhibition catalogue from the 1971 exhibit \u003ci\u003eWarhol: The Tate Gallery\u003c\/i\u003e, featuring the blue-and-yellow variation of the artist's iconic \u003ci\u003eMarilyn Monroe\u003c\/i\u003e. Warhol has boldly signed to the right portion of the cover in black felt-tip. The catalogue is full of color and black-and-white photographs. Index printed on magenta paper. 8.25 x 8.25 inches (21 x 21 cm.).\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eMarilyn Monroe was a legend when she committed suicide in August of 1962, but in retrospect her life seems a gradual martyrdom to the media and to her public. After her death, Warhol based many works on the same photograph of her, a publicity still for the 1953 movie \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eNiagara\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. He would paint the canvas with a single color—turquoise, green, blue, lemon yellow—then silkscreen Monroe's face on top, sometimes alone, sometimes doubled, sometimes multiplied in a grid. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn reduplicating this photograph of a heroine shared by millions, Warhol denied the sense of the uniqueness of the artist's personality that had been implicit in the gestural painting of the 1950s. He also used a commercial technique— silkscreening—that gives the picture a crisp, artificial look; even as Warhol canonizes Monroe, he reveals her public image as a carefully structured illusion.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093734609055,"sku":"19997","price":7500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Warhol_Andy_Signed_Tate_Exhibition_Book_19997.png?v=1722189986","url":"https:\/\/www.schubertiademusic.com\/products\/19997-warhol-andy-signed-marilyn-monroe-cover-tate-gallery-exhibition-booklet","provider":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}