Question

Hopkin notes Thomas Crowe’s argument that “the restatement of identical images in the Disasters series reminds us, poignantly of the daily repetitiveness of tragedy” and that “when you see a gruesome picture over and over again, it doesn’t really have any effect.” (117). How does Warhol’s work respond to this idea, and what implications does the blending of the boundaries between the grotesque and decorative imply?