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A biography of the revisionist artist who achieved prominence in the late 1960s for enormous, photographically realistic, black and white portraits of himself and his friends.

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Languages: English
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Published: 1998
Genre: Nonfiction
DDC/MDS: 759.13
LCC: ND1329 .C54 .G74

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