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"Quinn presents Kate Moss as a modern-day Aphrodite reminding us that Moss's likeness has become as iconic as the goddesses of the ancient world."

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Despite being aesthetically beautiful, what these works miss is that the celebrity, be it Moss, Lolo Ferrari or Michael Jackson, has already become our statue through the aesthetic of blanket television and magazine coverage. This renders the need to "immortalise" them in gold kind of redundent, and it's a glaring and annoying problem for all works that attempt to address the legacy of the celebrity in history post pop-art. If Baudrillard's argument about art's inability to transcend it's own aesthetics as "Art" is true then this problem is inescapable; At the excavation site we have to ask what would be more valuable to us when beginning the stratifying process when both are pure spectacle. Would have created a nice fissure in history to see this in the British Museum though...