ABSTRACT
Apart from the examples of postmodern art already cited in our Introduction and present chapter, there are other parodic works which merit mention. The following is a summary inventory of some of the most striking instances to be found in the plastic arts: Marie Lippens’ send-up of Rembrandt’s revered seventeenthcentury self-portrait suspended between the curved naked legs of a woman; Tano Festa’s take-off of Michael Angelo’s painting of Adam in the Sistine Chapel reproduced in a multiple photomat series; Raoul Hausmann’s ABCD, Portrait de l’Artiste which parodies the classical genre of portraiture in the form of a wastepaper collage of printed dockets; Andy Warhol’s involuted parody of Leonardo’s Last Supper; Robert Ballagh’s pop reproductions of Velasquez, David and Ingres. But besides such parodies of classical genres, one might also cite some of the postmodern parodies of contemporary consumer images: Roy Lichtenstein’s reproductions of comic-strip characters; Claes Oldenburg’s pseudo-imitations of hamburgers; and, of course, Andy Warhol’s silk-screen and acrylic imitations of consumer commodities like Brillo boxes, soup tins, Coca-cola bottles, etc.
