Warholian Repetition and the Viewer’s Affective Response to Artworks from His Death and Disaster Series

• DOI: 10.1162/leon_a_01191
• Publication Date: 2016-12-06T19:39:56Z
• Authors: Jason Kass; Beth Harland; Nick Donnelly
• Keywords: Repetition (rhetorical device); Affect

In his Death and Disaster series, Andy Warhol repeated gruesome images of suicides car crashes. The artist’s use repetition has been discussed extensively but not in terms its direct impact on the viewer’s perceptual cognitive processing. This article considers affective experience resulting from exposure to negative artworks series. authors put forward an account potential Warholian based existing experimental findings by way own remarks relationship between affect.