Self-portrait as Kurt Cobain, as Andy Warhol, as Myra Hindley, as Marilyn Monroe
About this artwork
In this self-portrait, Gordon merges and mimics iconic images of well-known blondes - Cobain, Warhol, Hindley and Monroe - in a single photograph. All the figures appropriated by Gordon had obviously dyed hair, and the artist contrasts their often notorious life histories with ideas of purity traditionally associated with blondeness. Gordon's pose also refers to 'Rrose Sélavy', the notorious alter ego of the Dada artist, Marcel Duchamp.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Douglas Gordon (born 1966) Scottish
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title:Self-portrait as Kurt Cobain, as Andy Warhol, as Myra Hindley, as Marilyn Monroe
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date created:1996
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materials:Hand-coloured photograph and mount
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measurements:75.00 x 75.00 cm (framed: 76.83 x 76.83 x 2.54 cm)
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credit line:Purchased 1998
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accession number:PGP 277.1
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artwork photographed by:Antonia Reeve
Douglas Gordon
Douglas Gordon
Gordon was born in Glasgow and studied at Glasgow School of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art, London. He has worked in video, photography, sound, text and other media and uses predominantly 'found' material. Gordon is fascinated by our binary nature and our tendency to split things into...
