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Portrait Head
Artist / Origin: Moche artist, Peru
Region: South America
Date: ca. 200–800 CE
Period: 1 CE – 500 CE
Material: Clay with paint
Medium: Ceramics
Credit: Photo © David Bernstein Fine Art, New York, NY
Diane von Furstenberg
Artist / Origin: Andy Warhol (American, 1928–1987)
Region: North America
Date: 1974
Period: 1900 CE – 2010 CE
Material: Screenprint
Medium: Prints, Drawings, and Photography
Credit: © Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo courtesy of Diane von Furstenberg and the Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
Today, the use of digital cameras makes it possible for us to produce infinite copies of our portraits, while programs such as Photoshop allow us to restyle those portraits to our hearts’ content. But the desire to replicate and alter portraits is in no way a twenty-first-century phenomenon. Throughout world history, people have sought ways to do these very things. However, as the Moche terracotta heads and Warhol’s silkscreen portraits demonstrate, their reasons have not always been the same.