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Virtuoso Illusions: The Artist as Transvestite
posted: 02-08-10
Andy Warhol, Self-Portrait (in Drag)
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A recently opened show at MIT's List Visual Arts Center lays bare the deep associations between cross-dressing and the artistic avant-garde, from classical drama to the (as always somewhat) polymorphous present. Naturally, the labors of Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray to give birth to the transvestite..    ...more
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Marcel Duchamp, 1921. Photograph by Man Ray. Art Direction by Marcel Duchamp. Silver print. 5-7/8" x 3"-7/8".
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