In the center of the picture are two people’s hands joined by handcuffs. The hands are raised to hide the pair’s faces. In 1967, the art dealer Robert Fraser (left) and rock group Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger (right) had been arrested on suspicion of drug use. The work was based on a news photo of the two in the back of a police van and was made using the screen printing technique. It was the age when if something happened its image would be duplicated countless times in newspapers and magazines. Pop art, which emerged in this same era, sought to incorporate the same mechanisms of mass production and mass consumption of imagery into art.
(KURAYA Mika)
In the center of the picture are two people’s hands joined by handcuffs. The hands are raised to hide the pair’s faces. In 1967, the art dealer Robert Fraser (left) and rock group Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger (right) had been arrested on suspicion of drug use. The work was based on a news photo of the two in the back of a police van and was made using the screen printing technique. It was the age when if something happened its image would be duplicated countless times in newspapers and magazines. Pop art, which emerged in this same era, sought to incorporate the same mechanisms of mass production and mass consumption of imagery into art.
(KURAYA Mika)