Elaine Sturtevant

Elaine Sturtevant (1924–2014) was an American artist renowned for her radical practice of replicating iconic works by her contemporaries, including Andy Warhol, Joseph Beuys, and Marcel Duchamp, challenging notions of originality, authorship, and authenticity. Working from the 1960s onward, she reproduced these works with deliberate slight differences, forcing viewers to question the nature of art and the myths surrounding artistic genius. Though initially dismissed, she was later recognized as a visionary precursor to appropriation art and postmodern theory, receiving the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2011.