Andy Warhol's "16 Jackies"

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The paper explains that Andy Warhol helped make viewers aware of the way that modern imaging affects emotive response. The paper shows how Warhol multiplied the poses of Jackie Kennedy in order to illustrate how the images were repetitive and thus desensitized by the mass media.

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"The 16 Jackies by Andy Warhol was created after the assassination of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963. The 16 images presented in the series are merely reflecting four different poses of Jackie Kennedy before and after the death of her husband, the president. The four images (from top to bottom) reflect Jackie coming into Love Field in Dallas, Texas, after the flight; the next image is Jackie at the swearing in ceremony of Lyndon B. Johnson after JFK's death; Jackie grieving at the capitol; and finally, Jackie smiling in the car right before JFK was assassinated. With each image there are three duplicates that simply follow a repetitious sequence, much like one would see in a film roll. In this manner, the images are stacked upon one another, yet they all reflect a similar pose that depict Jackie at various stages of experience before and after her husband's death."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Honnef, K. (2000). Andy Warhol 1928-1987: Commerce into art. New York: Taschen.
• Shafrazi, T. Andy Warhol portraits. New York: Phaidon.
• Warhol, A. "16 Jackies (1964). Walker Art Center. Retrieved 17 September, 2006 from http://collections.walkerart.org/item/enlarge_fs.html?type=object&id=422&image_num=1
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