![]() ![]() He takes the pristine black-and-white images of the American landscape but photoshops in errors and typically tacky items, like a plastic flamingo. “Cancel Ansel” is Waters’s defilement of classic Ansel Adams photographs. To her left is notorious and now-elderly womanizer Philip Roth under the headline “Philip Roth Dates 70 Year Old Woman.” To her right is the famously prolific Joyce Carol Oates with the headline “Help! I've Got Writer's Block.” Instead, Waters' National Brainiac features the famously petite Joan Didion puffy, distorted and clutching a hoagie under the headline “Joan Didion Hits 250 pounds.” ![]() “Brainiac” is a play on the cover of the National Enquirer. He makes something perversely beautiful and funny by mixing high and low into a delightful mish-mash. “Beverly Hills John” is the Waters who bathes in that corruption and ugliness. However, he first earned his name for his infamously controversial 1972 Pink Flamingos, a comedy which involved rape, castration, cannibalism, and (most notoriously) dog feces-eating. ![]()
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