| Artist: | Tom Wesselman |
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| Title: | Bathtub Collage #3 (detail) | |
| Date: | 1963 | |
| Nationality: | American | |
| Context: | Signscape | |
| Movement: | Pop Art | |
| Materials: | mixed media | |
| Subject: rethinking the nude, with an American Pop Art twist; the figure is flattened like a stencil and blanked out until it becomes the least real thing in this mixed media environment; the loss of individuality in a mass media age; only the erogenous zones are articulated. Style: flattend figure in a mixed media environment,including an actual clothes hamper and door with towel on rack and real shower curtain; the human figure, however, is rendered as a stencil and de-personalized; anti-subjective, anti-painterly. Context: loss of individuality and the personal in the mass media advertising age of the 60s; the degraded American Dream where the subject becomes an object. | ||
