Warhol In Drag New Exhibition Opens In Salford

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Warhol In Drag New Exhibition Opens In Salford
Cindy Sherman and Robert Mapplethorpe were also exploring themes along these lines in the 1980's

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In 1981 Pop Artist Andy Warhol in collaboration with his friend Christopher Makos worked on a series of photographs with a transgender theme. The Artist's conceptual basis for the series of 350 stills was to explore the way you are seen by others. This subject  was very much the zeitgeist in an armory of ideas floating around the New York scene in the early 1980's. It was a device that was already being explored by photographers such as Robert Mapplethorpe and Cindy Sherman which would be extended to become the basis of an important part of art at the end of the 20th century. Warhol was always fascinated by the counter culture of drag queens and by using seven different wigs and a dash of slap the artist transformed himself into a series of striking female alter-egos.