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Artforum International, January, 2004 by Hoberman, J.
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Shooting Kennedy: JFK and the Culture of Images, by David M. Lubin. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 342 pages. $25.
IN LATE 1960, a young artist named James Rosenquist juxtaposed a head shot lifted from a campaign poster with shards from glossy magazine ads for a packaged cake mix and a 1949 Chevy. Equating voters with consumers, Rosenquist called his painting President Elect. Thus, John F. Kennedy entered the White House already an object of marketable fantasy, America's new First Trademark and icon-in-chief.
Art historian David M. Lubin's Shooting ...
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