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Year Zero, NIN's sixth studio album, presented a grim sci-fi portait of the year 2022, after a nuclear war between the US and Iran and the ascent of an American "Bureau of Morality".
Trent Reznor to make TV series based on Nine Inch Nails album
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But what on the surface impresses the viewer as regurgitations of Pop Art, on closer inspection reveals itself to be a self-portait of a woman artist courageously confessing her life-long envy of, and ambition to become as talented and great as the men of modern art history.
G. Roger Denson: Women Artists Sweep Best of 2010 NYC Arts (SLIDESHOW)
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But what on the surface impresses the viewer as regurgitations of Pop Art, on closer inspection reveals itself to be a self-portait of a woman artist courageously confessing her life-long envy of, and ambition to become as talented and great as the men of modern art history.
G. Roger Denson: Women Artists Sweep Best of 2010 NYC Arts (SLIDESHOW)
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But what on the surface impresses the viewer as regurgitations of Pop Art, on closer inspection reveals itself to be a self-portait of a woman artist courageously confessing her life-long envy of, and ambition to become as talented and great as the men of modern art history.
G. Roger Denson: Women Artists Sweep Best of 2010 NYC Arts (SLIDESHOW)
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But what on the surface impresses the viewer as regurgitations of Pop Art, on closer inspection reveals itself to be a self-portait of a woman artist courageously confessing her life-long envy of, and ambition to become as talented and great as the men of modern art history.
G. Roger Denson: Women Artists Sweep Best of 2010 NYC Arts (SLIDESHOW)
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The work is built around long, lingering close-up takes on an art-historical image: A black-and-white reproduction of a 1548 self portait of the artist Hemessen as she works away at a picture of herself, said to be the first such painting made.
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Martinez raised the bar with a lifelike self-portait animatronic sculpture that slit its wrists as a performance.
Mat Gleason: The Ten Most UNDERRATED Los Angeles Art World Stars
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But what on the surface impresses the viewer as regurgitations of Pop Art, on closer inspection reveals itself to be a self-portait of a woman artist courageously confessing her life-long envy of, and ambition to become as talented and great as the men of modern art history.
G. Roger Denson: Women Artists Sweep Best of 2010 NYC Arts (SLIDESHOW)
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Martinez raised the bar with a lifelike self-portait animatronic sculpture that slit its wrists as a performance.
Mat Gleason: The Ten Most UNDERRATED Los Angeles Art World Stars
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But what on the surface impresses the viewer as regurgitations of Pop Art, on closer inspection reveals itself to be a self-portait of a woman artist courageously confessing her life-long envy of, and ambition to become as talented and great as the men of modern art history.
G. Roger Denson: Women Artists Sweep Best of 2010 NYC Arts (SLIDESHOW)
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