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Sturtevant posed with Robert Rauschenberg for her 1967 piece “Duchamp Relache,” now at MOMA.
AFTER IMAGE
The American artist Elaine Sturtevant made her name reprising others’ work.
“sturtevant: double trouble, ”at MOMA, celebrates perhaps the
oddest American artist of the last half century. Elaine Sturtevant, who died this
year at the age of eighty- nine, in Paris, where she had lived since the early nineties,
made a low-profile, pesky career of copying works by others, mostly men: Marcel
Duchamp, a specialty, but also Jasper Johns, most of the leading Pop artists, Joseph
Beuys, and, eventually, Keith Haring, Paul McCarthy, and Robert Gober. She grew
up in Cleveland and earned two degrees in psychology before turning to art and
settling in New York, in the fifties. One work in the show — a sparse but visceral
abstraction made with cut-open paint tubes, from 1961 — hints at real promise
before Sturtevant, starting in 1964, submerged in her campaign of “repetitions,” as
she termed her copies.
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