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Olivia Laing - You're Booked

You're Booked

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The Importance of Caricatures

I love the BL I can't wait to get back into my humanities one reading room but when I'm working on specific people it's wherever their archive is so yeah I absolutely love it. The idea of sort of sending yourself up and making a caricature of yourself was also some of the earliest branding as we know it contemporaneously. It really cuts to the heart of how we are now as well in the 21st century that we're all doing that all the time. You know we're building our brands and we're curating our identities and Warhol was like yeah I did that a long time ago. Oh it's all because of the wigs. The wigs are locked for man

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