[lbo-talk] U.C. Davis pepper spray cop occupies art history - The Washington Post

[Chris Sturr]

I think it's hilarious.  Check out the one that inserts him into Guernica:
http://dollarsandsense.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/pepperspray-guernica.jpg

And here's the template so you can make one of your own:
http://s3.amazonaws.com/kym-assets/photos/images/original/000/203/419/photoshoptemplate.jpg?1321852611

Maybe there's no explaining its appeal, just like there's no explaining
Warhol's appeal.

Joanna said:

This stuff completely escapes me. I mean putting the cop in all the
pictures.

???

Joanna

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"Lt. John Pike, photographed pepper spraying passive protesters at U.C.
Davis, has become the subject of a meme inserting him in great moments in
history and art history."

No Warhols.

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