Citation

Kass J, Harland B, Donnelly N. Leonardo 2018; 51(2): 138-142.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018)

DOI

10.1162/LEON_a_01191

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

In his Death and Disaster series, Andy Warhol repeated gruesome images of suicides and car crashes. The artist's use of repetition has been discussed extensively but not in terms of its direct impact on the viewer's perceptual and cognitive processing. This article considers the viewer's affective experience resulting from repeated exposure to negative images in artworks from the Death and Disaster series. The authors put forward an account of the potential affective experience of Warholian repetition based on existing experimental findings and by way of the artist's own remarks on the relationship between repetition and affect. © 2018 ISAST.

Language: en