The Performance Group: Dionysus in 69, Andy Warhol

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Andy Warhol, The Performance Group: Dionysus in 69
Andy Warhol, The Performance Group: Dionysus in 69
Andy Warhol
The Performance Group: Dionysus in 69
1969
Andy Warhol
1928–1987
The Performance Group: Dionysus in 69, 1969
Portfolio/Series title: "Say hello to the Dirty Half Dozen, Sierra Bandit, The American Playground and all the Superstars of the New Theatre," published in Esquire
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: chromogenic color print
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 8.8 x 15.1 cm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 3 7/16 x 5 15/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 14 x 11 in
Credit line: Gift of Esquire, Inc.
Accession number: 1980.0307
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Archive Label: Warhol made this photograph of The Performance Group, an experimental-theater company, on assignment for Esquire, a men’s fashion and life-style magazine. The group is performing the play Dionysus in ‘69, a Greek myth updated for the 1960s. Rather than use professional processing for his film, Warhol chose the kind of low-price processing found at a corner drugstore. In this case, the processing provided two prints on a single sheet of paper. And rather than separate the prints, Warhol here (and in Esquire) kept them together, providing in the pairing a mark of the popular culture that so fascinated him.