Round 10: Tossup 17

This artist’s mother wrote captions such as “to shoe or not to shoe” in a series of shoe drawings whose title riffs on a Proust novel. This artist applied copper paint then urinated on a canvas to create his Oxidation Paintings, one of which depicts his mentee (10[1])Jean-Michel Basquiat. A silver car crash is part of this artist’s (10[1])Death and Disaster Series. At the Ferus Gallery, this artist debuted a series of paintings whose “Pepper Pot” entry has a torn label. This artist, who coined the “15 Minutes of Fame,” created a “Diptych” (10[1])of an actress and several other silkscreens (10[2])in his Manhattan studio, the Factory. For 10 points, name this Pop artist of Campbell’s soup cans. ■END■

ANSWER: Andy Warhol [or Andrew Warhola Jr.] (The first line refers to À la recherche du shoe perdu.)
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Summary

TournamentEditionTUHConv. %Neg %Average Buzz
UK (North)UK5100%0%83.80
UK (South)UK7100%14%66.14
Northern CaliforniaUS4100%0%63.00
Southern CaliforniaUS7100%0%76.14
Eastern Canada (1)US5100%0%78.60
Eastern Canada (2)US9100%0%75.22
FloridaUS4100%0%100.75
Great LakesUS12100%17%71.92
Lower Mid-AtlanticUS9100%0%77.67
Upper Mid-AtlanticUS10100%0%70.80
Upper Mid-AtlanticUS2100%100%116.50
MidwestUS9100%11%58.44
NorthUS4100%0%73.75
NortheastUS11100%0%71.45
PacificUS8100%0%67.00
South CentralUS7100%14%75.57
SoutheastUS13100%15%69.31
Upstate NYUS6100%0%72.00