About this artwork
Kathe Burkhart is an artist and writer who uses images and text to, in her words, “articulate a radical female subject.” She considers this confrontational, sensual work to be the first fully realized canvas in her Liz Taylor Series, ongoing since 1982. The series of large-scale, richly saturated paintings combines appropriated portraits of actress Elizabeth Taylor (here, a shot of her as Cleopatra, taken by Bert Stern for Vogue magazine in 1962) with profane language, shattering both female stereotypes and conventions of representation. Taylor was a controversial feminist figure throughout her career, conveying equal parts bravura, sexual power, and vulnerability. Burkhart—collapsing the genres of portraiture and self-portraiture—treated the actress as a surrogate figure
for her own life in the diary-like narrative series.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Contemporary Art
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Artist
- Kathe Burkhart
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Title
- Fuck You: from the Liz Taylor Series (after Bert Stern)
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Place
- United States (Object made in)
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Date
- Made 1984
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Medium
- Acrylic and composition leaf on canvas
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Dimensions
- 182.8 × 121.9 cm (72 × 48 in.)
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Credit Line
- Contemporary Art Discretionary Fund
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Reference Number
- 2016.324
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