Category Archives: Parody
Biel, chap. 4, pt. 1
Titled “Parody,” Chapter 4 of Steven Biel’s American Gothic: A Life of America’s Most Famous Painting deals with the morphing of the painting along satirical lines. Biel pegs the beginning of this trend to the 1957 musical The Music Man, which includes an … Continue reading
Abu Ghraib
This next remix is by artist Gerald Laing (American Gothic, 2004). Immediately obvious is its connection to a specific American scandal; clearly we are meant to read this as an ironic twist on the original. My primary question: is this … Continue reading
Barack and Michelle Obama
There have been a number of versions of AG featuring the Obamas, most of them fairly innocuous and straightforward. The two images to the right are typical. The second is a more thorough attempt at both acknowledging and remixing the … Continue reading
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich and his wife Callista (from BlueGal). This seems to be a remix of a previous Green Acres parody, with only the heads changed and the RNC Iowa seal added in the background. This version also employs elements of the … Continue reading
Gothic Thoughts 