Jacob Pover

Grayson Perry 

Appropriations of appropriations, Turk’s Transit Disaster series re-cycles Warhol’s car crash paintings from the Pop Artist’s Death And Disaster series, which in turn were re-cycled from photographs of fatal accidents taken from newspapers. Except, rather than an American car, the vehicle in question in Turk’s work is the iconic white van, symbol of a certain white working class Britishness, now dying its own kind of slow death, as the UK moves into a post-industrial, multi-cultural era, where demand for them is beginning to diminish. Where Warhol’s “originals”, anesthetized violence through multiple reproductions in bright, saturated colours, so the Transit Disaster paintings become abstractions of abstractions, transforming horror into beauty and death into something striking and sexy as the deformed metal of the crashes become textures, patterns and shapes, with the notion of Britishness becoming the ultimate casualty.

Young boys manning a refreshment trolley in Paddington station, 1910.

This photo has meme potential.

"A-ring-a-ding-ding."

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Magnificent Vertical Pan Production Background Painting For Sloppy Jalopy (UPA, 1952).

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Trans Antarctic Expedition: Tucker Sno-Cat Type 743 Double Drive Cat Stuck Half Way Across a Ice Crevasse - 1955

Northern Ireland (1973) Soldier with Bulletproof Shield.

Calvin and Hobbes: Creativity

1968 Paris Protest Poster.

1914-1918- WWI Fighter Pilot Training.

Train Wreck.

This poem, recited by an anonymous Kwakuitl Indian of Southern Alaska to a missionary in 1896, captures the excruciating pain of lost love. 

"Moment of Joy"