Artworks

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Artwork · Yasumasa Morimura · 1994 · photograph

In a computer-manipulated image Yasumasa Morimura (b. 1951) appears twice in the costumes of Michael Jackson and Madonna — appropriating American pop personalities, as he had put himself into European paintings since the 1980s, and drawing a parallel between their trademark poses and the characters of Japanese cartoons. 1 Mason 2005, p. 389, fig. 465. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.