Andy Warhol's "Jackie The Week that Was" (1963) was created in the aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in Dallas, TX and produced from Warhol's gathering of newspaper clippings and photographs documenting response to the tragedy. Warhol's process of silkscreening (which we will discuss in class on Thursday) allowed him to reproduce existing photographic images in large scale and on canvas. How has Warhol organized these individual images of Jacqueline Kennedy within the composition? Is there an implied narrative to the arrangement? And how might we compare Warhol's image to Rembrandt's "tronies" as a category of image derived from, but not equivalent to, portraiture?
