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Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford cover image

Andy Warhol's Factory of Truth

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

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Alice Sherwood on Authenticity, Reclaiming Reality in a Counterfeit Culture

When it was first exhibited for sale in Rome's leading art gallery, Andy Warhol apparently had no idea that the picture existed. A silk screen picture based on a newspaper photograph of the corpse of the recently executed Marxist revolutionary leader, Che Guevara. Alice Sherwood is currently a visiting senior research fellow at the Policy Institute at King's College London. She has written an absolutely delightful book titled Authenticity, Reclaiming Reality in a counterfeit culture.

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