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Article: David Krippendorff: Massimo Audiello.(New York)(Critical Essay)
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- Artforum International
- Article date:
- September 1, 2004
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Rita Hayworth's star turn in Charles Vidor's movie Gilda (1946) was decisive in establishing the actress as a Hollywood sex bomb. On July 1 of the same year, the United States exploded the fourth atomic bomb on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, a test designed to show the world that the country had a nuclear arsenal. The bomb was named Gilda and had Hayworth's image painted on its surface. David Krippendorff takes this equation as a point of departure for paintings, drawings, and video that move adroitly through the linked terrains of social criticism and political dissent.
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The movie Gilda, with its narrative stereotypes and ...