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(Excerpted from ABC News -- Good Morning America, Saturday, Jan. 19, 2008)

Blonde Ambition: Iconic Blondes Shape History

New Art Exhibit Looks At Evolution and Influence of Blondes in Pop Culture

Blondeness was created 11,000 years ago, toward the end of the last ice age, by a genetic mutation that has resulted in a look that some might regard as an iconic ideal.

We've heard of Madonna's "Blond Ambition" tour, the blond Barbie, the blond Bond, and even the popular "Legally Blonde" movies. And now, a retrospective on culture's interpretation of blondes has been put in a museum.

The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis is presenting "Beauty and the Blonde: An Exploration of American Art and Popular Culture." The show looks at the way culture and art have interpreted the image of blondness in history.

It is curated by Catharina Manchanda, and it includes the famous silkscreens of Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe and Roy Lichtenstein's pop art images of blondes in comics...




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New Art Exhibit Looks At Evolution and Influence of Blondes in Pop Culture

ABC News -- Good Morning America, Saturday, Jan. 19, 2008
Byline: Desiree Adib

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