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Old 07.04.2007, 07:58 AM   #53
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Me too.

Most recently, the faked bronzes of Suri Cruise's first poop and the bronze of Britney Spears giving birth on a bearskin rug by Daniel Edwards (who really knows how to spin his shock-schlock) have raised eyebrows.
http://www.caplakesting.com/2006_catalog/de/index.htm
Daniel Edwards has done other lesser-known works that deliberately court controversy like a nude bust of Hillary Clinton, & a "Paris Hilton autopsy."
http://www.caplakesting.com/danedwards/index.htm
and it's just one rogue gallery representing him.

Still, Daniel Edwards' art isn't completely awful. Some of it is a good as Jeff Koons, who also isn't a "great," but has done some great stuff. Personally, I feel Karen Kilimnik's treatment of celebrity is more in tune with a Warholian sensibility (yet, bear in mind, her works look nothing like a Warhol; she's also someone who can write on the picture plane successfully) and that, as important conceptual artists go, Lucas Samaras and Laurie Anderson are to be considered as well.
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Robert Rauschenberg, Canyon, 1959. Combine on canvas 81 3/4 x 70 x 24 inches.
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