Susan Dorothea White Bibliography

Ludicrous Leonardo

The Last Supper inevitably evokes poor old Leonardo, who is used by Stephen Kaldor in a dreadful painting called (even more dreadfully) Suddenly Last Supper. A group of Central American guerrillas lounges around outside a building of which one wall has been destroyed, revealing the famous fresco inside. Still more ludicrous is Susan Dorothea White’s The First Supper, in which all the figures of Leonardo’s composition have been replaced by women of various ages and races, with an Aboriginal woman in the place of Christ. How this excruciating piece of kitsch could even have been hung is a mystery.