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This episode is sponsored by 80Fresh: Tasty. Healthy. Simple. Get 20% off of your first order by using the code "ARTCURIOUS" here. Death has always been a part of art history. That's one of the beautiful things about art-- it can detail and document and celebrate every facet of our existence. And so much of the great art that we know and love today works in the capacity to stave off one of the terrible side effects death-- being forgotten. Portraits, stone monuments, ancient coins-- they all aim to ensure that the subjects depicted will be remembered and revered for all eternity. But Andy Warhol’s take on mortality wasn't about memorializing. He instead focused on the direct causes of death, or the aftermath of a terrible accident. His series, Death and Disaster, is one of the most well-known and polarizing of his career. But Warhol wasn't the first artist to focus on the everyday tragedy of death as a subject to quite this revealing and exploitative extent. No, that honor might very well belong to someone else-- an immigrant photographer working in Manhattan in the 1930s and 1940s. In this episode, we discover the subject matter and motivations behind Andy Warhol's Death and Disaster series, and relate them to the work of the greatest crime scene photographer in history, Weegee. //SUBSCRIBE and review us on iTunes HERE! And follow us on Twitter and on Instagram for more artsy goodness:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/artcuriouspod/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/artcuriouspodRecommended reading: Buy our recommended books from Barnes and Noble, below. ArtCurious has a relationship with Barnes and Noble, and will receive a small percentage of sales. Please support our podcast by purchasing from them- and you get FREE SHIPPING if you spend $25 or more! Want even MORE information? Check out the links below:Weegee as WitnessThe Original NightcrawlerWeegee's Day at the BeachArt Portfolio: WeegeeDeath and Death and Death by WarholAndy Warhol, the Death and Disaster Series and Prestige
Weegee (Arthur Fellig), Self Portrait
Weegee's Photo Credit
Weegee perched on a fire escape, New York. Photo by Leigh Wiener.
Weegee (Arthur Fellig), Girl jumped out of car, and was killed, on Park Ave., circa 1938
Weegee (Arthur Fellig), Their First Murder, c. 1941
Andy Warhol, 32 Soup Cans, 1961-62 Synthetic polymer paint on thirty-two canvases, each 50.8 x 40.6 cm. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
New York Mirror front page, inspiration for Warhol's 129 Die in Jet
Andy Warhol, 129 Die in Jet, 1962, acrylic and pencil on canvas, 100 x 72 in. (254 x 182.9 cm.)
Andy Warhol, Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster), 1963, acrylic screenprint on canvas, 8 by 13 feet, private collection.
Andy Warhol, 5 Deaths, 1963, stamped 'Andy Warhol' (on the overlap), silkscreen ink and acrylic on canvas 44 x 33 in.
Marilyn Monroe, Still from Niagara
Gold Marilyn Monroe Andy Warhol (American, 1928–1987) 1962. Silkscreen ink on synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 6' 11 1/4" x 57", Museum of Modern Art, New York
An original photo of Marilyn, distorted by Weegee's plastic lens, c. 1960
Andy Warhol, 16 Jackies, 1964, acrylic screenprint on canvas
Weegee (Arthur Fellig), Andy Warhol Distortion, c. 1965, 8 3/8 x 6 3/4 in, International Center for Photography, New York
Weegee (Arthur Fellig), Andy Warhol Distortion, c. 1967, Image: 6 3/8 x 6 in. International Center for Photography, New York
Weegee (Arthur Fellig) (American, 1899-1968). Self Portrait with Andy Warhol, 1965. Gelatin silver photograph, Image: 10 3/8 x 10 15/16 in. (26.4 x 27.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum
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