◇ After
Lichtenstein's comic-panel canvases - the weeping close-up of 'Crying Girl' crossed with the lettered sound-effect burst of the war paintings ('Whaam!') · Roy Lichtenstein, 1963
One enlarged comic panel. A face cropped hard by the frame, one fat tear on the cheek, KA-POW lettered in red across the top. The weeping close-up is a bandaged GI.
“After” is the old gallery word for a work made in open conversation with another. It is a lineage, not a shortcut.
◇ Piece Room
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