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Sherrie Levine - Bobcat Skull (2010) (Cast bronze; edition of 12.) “At the heart of Levine’s process of reference and repetition has been the investigation of the aura of the work of art. It was Walter Benjamin’s contention that the mechanical reproduction of the work of art would tend to erase its auratic presence. Levine’s intention in re-creating photographs, paintings and sculptures was to subvert this suggestion. The display of a series of six skulls from the edition re-enforces this subversion as she reveals the aura of the work as something independent from any sense of its uniqueness or the process of its fabrication.” |
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