Little Electric Chair
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Little Electric Chair is a 1960s silkscreen painting by Andy Warhol that depicts an empty execution chamber chair, exemplifying his stark exploration of death and media imagery.
Observed surface forms (1)
| Surface form | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Silver Electric Chair | 1 |
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
painting
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silkscreen print ⓘ |
| artForm | screen print ⓘ |
| artHistoricalContext |
Cold War era
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postwar American art ⓘ |
| artisticTechnique | silkscreen printing ⓘ |
| associatedConcept |
banality of evil
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mechanical reproduction ⓘ media saturation ⓘ repetition in Pop art ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Factory era of Andy Warhol ⓘ |
| basedOn |
newspaper image of an electric chair
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press photograph ⓘ |
| colorVariants | multiple color versions ⓘ |
| copyrightHolder | Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| creator | Andy Warhol NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creatorBirthName | Andrew Warhola NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creatorGender | male ⓘ |
| creatorNationality | American ⓘ |
| depicts |
electric chair
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execution chamber ⓘ |
| exploresTheme |
mass media
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mortality ⓘ spectacle of death ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| genre | Pop art NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced |
contemporary discussions of death in art
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critical theory on media and violence ⓘ |
| inception | 1960s ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
capital punishment
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death ⓘ media imagery ⓘ |
| materialUsed |
canvas
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ink ⓘ paper ⓘ |
| movement | Pop art NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
empty electric chair
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repetition within a series ⓘ stark composition ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Death and Disaster series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| period | 1960s American art ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Big Electric Chair
NERFINISHED
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Orange Car Crash (Five Times) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| series | Death and Disaster series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Little Electric Chair NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workType | fine art print ⓘ |
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Silver Electric Chair