Review: Photo Revolution: Andy Warhol to Cindy Sherman

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Book Review| March 01 2020 Review: Photo Revolution: Andy Warhol to Cindy Sherman Photo Revolution: Andy Warhol to Cindy Sherman: Worcester Art Museum. Worcester, MA: November 6, 2019–February 16, 2020. James Cunning Holland James Cunning Holland James Cunning Holland, a visual artist and writer, teaches digital and performance art at Eastern Connecticut State University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2020) 47 (1): 78–85. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2020.471014 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation James Cunning Holland; Review: Photo Revolution: Andy Warhol to Cindy Sherman. Afterimage 1 March 2020; 47 (1): 78–85. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2020.471014 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAfterimage Search Worcester Art Museum's recent exhibition Photo Revolution: Andy Warhol to Cindy Sherman allowed viewers to revisit the technological and aesthetic transformations, and the cultural tumult, of the 1960s through the 1980s. In addition to functioning as a conventional exhibition of historical works of art that are sequentially ordered, each accompanied by didactic text, discrete works in Photo Revolution blended together in a visual conversation that was greater than the sum of its parts. Chiefly comprised of artworks drawn from the museum's permanent collection, Photo Revolution aimed to give viewers a direct experience of, in the words of the show's curator Nancy Kathryn Burns, “what it would look like to holistically integrate photography's ascent into the broader themes and trends” of mid-twentieth-century art.1 It turns out that photography provides a perfect foundation for discussing the artistic and cultural vicissitudes of the 1960s, '70s, and '80s. Toward the beginning of this... You do not currently have access to this content.