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'Jackie' Smashes an Icon

It’s a bit late in history for a cultural reckoning with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Since she and the era she represented were shattered by a Texas bullet, her careful and cold public image has come to stand for the artificiality that made postwar America a temporary—and secretly unhappy—paradise. Warhol picked up on this symbolism as early as 1964, and the former first lady’s reputation hasn…

SOURCE: Backstage at 07:00PM on March 5, 2013

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