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When I Last Wrote to You About Africa

by Stephanie Douglass

posted 3/13/2013

Jeff Koons tasks the lifting of paintbrushes to his tightly controlled troop of 150 paid assistants. Andy Warhol relied upon an assembly line of hired hands to mass-produce his silkscreens and lithographs. And even Michelangelo entrusted the painting of several doughy putti on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel to a few skilled helpers.

 
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