Who was Pietro Psaier?
Monday August 18, 2008
Shelley Esaak, About.com's guide to Art History, has uncovered what strikes her as a very peculiar mystery: an artist about whom a documentary is in pre-production, but whom Shelley is beginning to doubt existed. Pietro Psaier is supposed to have been a close personal friend of Andy Warhol's, but he was killed in the 2004 Indonesian tsunami. Or... was he?
Comments
THIS is not archaology.
True, undeniably true–an art history mystery is not archaeology. But–isn’t it interesting, how people can find themselves unable to parse out the reality of a chimera, based on “indirect traces in bad samples”? That kind of thing happens in archaeology pretty much constantly.
http://archaeology.about.com/od/quotations/qt/quote7.htm