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The Joy Divisions, like all works about artists, is deeply metafictional--a novel about art, literature, and the hows, whats, and whys of artistic (and architectural) representation. The novel represents and discusses many famous and obscure works of art, including some of the ones below.
Tristan tzara
"Sans Titre" (1922)
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“'MDMA,' said Kevin. 'Ecstasy.'
'Fucking designer jean, ravin’, Tide-box-purse-carrying bullshit.'
Ed looked at Kevin.
'Club kids,' said Kevin. 'You know. Tristan Tzara without the depth.'” (8)
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Marcel Duchamp
"L.H.O.O.Q. or La Joconde" (1919)
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"This was not like Duchamp’s L.H.O.O.Q. This was a stroke-for-stroke recreation of Leonardo’s work." (31)
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Hans Bellmer
"Die Puppe" (1962)
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"Someone’s amateurish, yet still unnerving, life-size recreation of Hans Bellmer’s Die Puppe stared at the guests from a dark corner like some uncanny mummy excavated from a Guanajuato tomb." (48)
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Jean Dubuffet
"Combat Beard" (1959)
"Samuel specialized in Dubuffets, which all
looked the same to her, and she remembered being perplexed when she learned that her father kept many of them in storage to keep the prices up on the few he displayed." (20)
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Blek le Rat
"The Warrior - Artist Proof (2021)
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"The Kin wanted to disrupt the habituated patterns of modern capitalist existence and to challenge people’s single-minded and binary belief systems by doing guerilla graffiti pieces in random and not-so-random places, like Blek le Rat; striking up conversations with random people in malls and bus stops, only to talk them slowly into some contradiction in their beliefs that they had not noticed before, like Socrates; staging dramatic scenes in public spaces where the spectators could not believe what they were seeing, but would always talk about it for the rest of their lives." (66)
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Orlan
"Orlan accouche d’elle m’aime" (1964)
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"The main space of her loft off South Street was overlooked by a fifteen-foot-wide print of Orlan’s photograph, Orlan accouche d’elle m’aime, in which the artist gives birth to 'herself' as an androgynous mannequin." (21)
Diego Rivera
"Pan American Unity" (1940)
"Packs of individuals cradle mugs around marble-topped tables. Walls decorated like a postmodern Diego Rivera: patchwork frames mixing high with low." (44)
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Salvador Dalí
“Métamorphose de Narcisse" (1937)
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"I also wanted to get to the Tate to see Dalí’s Métamorphose de Narcisse, but first I was hoping to visit Westminster Cathedral, Parliament, Buckingham Palace, the National Gallery, and the British Museum." (238)
