Dark And Deadpan: Pop In Tv And The Movies
15 Nov 2012 - 31 Mar 2013
Sherman Price (active 1960s)
still from The Imp-Probable Mr. Weegee, 1966
35mm film transferred to high-definition video, color, sound; 75 min
Image courtesy Something Weird Video
still from The Imp-Probable Mr. Weegee, 1966
35mm film transferred to high-definition video, color, sound; 75 min
Image courtesy Something Weird Video
DARK AND DEADPAN: POP IN TV AND THE MOVIES
15 November 2012 – 31 March 2013
From Andy Warhol’s commercial for Schrafft’s restaurants to Sherman Price’s film The Imp-Probable Mr. Weegee, starring Weegee as a crazy photographer, footage of the moon landing, and George Kuchar’s mock Hollywood melodrama HOLD ME WHILE I’M NAKED, this exhibition brings together rarely seen films, advertisements, and political campaign messages that reflect the extravagant yet deadpan excess of Pop. Together they reveal the central role played by television and cinema in articulating the excitement, anxiety, and desire underlying both Pop art and popular culture in the 1960s.
Dark and Deadpan is organized by Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator Chrissie Iles, and Curator of Performance Jay Sanders.
15 November 2012 – 31 March 2013
From Andy Warhol’s commercial for Schrafft’s restaurants to Sherman Price’s film The Imp-Probable Mr. Weegee, starring Weegee as a crazy photographer, footage of the moon landing, and George Kuchar’s mock Hollywood melodrama HOLD ME WHILE I’M NAKED, this exhibition brings together rarely seen films, advertisements, and political campaign messages that reflect the extravagant yet deadpan excess of Pop. Together they reveal the central role played by television and cinema in articulating the excitement, anxiety, and desire underlying both Pop art and popular culture in the 1960s.
Dark and Deadpan is organized by Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator Chrissie Iles, and Curator of Performance Jay Sanders.