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 (10[1])to create (10[1])his Oxidation Paintings, one of which depicts his mentee Jean-Michel Basquiat. A silver car crash is part of (10[1])this artist’s Death and (10[1])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” of an actress and several other (10[1])silkscreens (10[1])in his Manhattan studio, (10[1])the Factory. (10[1])For 10 points, (10[1])name this Pop artist of Campbell’s soup cans. ■END■

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