◇ After
The Wall · Gerald Scarfe · Pink Floyd, 1979
Three grotesques stacked one over another. The pallid centre head with its split hooked nose and gaping maw, the teal harridan with streaming red hair. The title is scrawled and dripping, not set in type.
“After” is the old gallery word for a work made in open conversation with another. It is a lineage, not a shortcut.
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