Paul Thek – The Tomb (1967) “Officially Paul Thek died in 1988, but really he died twice. In 1967 él concibió la tumba (frequently called Death of a Hippie) – the summation of a decade, a cultural ethos, and a career. It was the piece he never lived down and never lived up to. Thek became the unwilling prophet of the failure of counterculture idealism and could not regain the tragicomic intensity of The Tomb or his Technological Reliquaries, esculturas de cera de carne cruda y partes del cuerpo encerradas en vitrinas”. “La tumba consistía en un edificio de un piso de altura, pale pink structure reminiscent of a Sumerian ziggurat, within which lay a full-size, painstakingly crafted effigy of Thek himself. Painted pale pink, el replicante…