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“... before the hippies. After the Old Left, before the New Left. After Campbell’s soup, before Andy Warhol …’) or literary comment of equal silliness and banality (‘The women of Thrace tore Orpheus to pieces, as a crowd of rock teenyboppers would a rock star, if they could’; ‘The best art is a flame warming our own imaginations, a campfire ...”

“... through a ‘like me’ clause to various artists (‘Mapplethorpe, like me, was an admirer of Andy Warhol’; ‘Madonna, like me, is drawn to drag queens’) or praising Sexual Personae as ‘perhaps the longest book yet written by a woman’, Paglia’s tireless self-promotion has a certain mad appeal. Female comics usually compensate for their ...”

“... critic and curator Mario Amaya, who had been slightly injured in Valerie Solanas’s shooting of Andy Warhol. ‘Will concrete poets ever be famous enough to be shot?’ Finlay asked. What makes​ Finlay’s anger difficult for some to grasp is the classical grace and purity of the vision it served; to put it the other way round, it isn’t always ...”

“... and William Morris has been adopted as a hero by Jeremy Deller, who juxtaposed him admiringly with Andy Warhol in Love Is Enough, the show he curated recently at Modern Art Oxford. Couture perfectionism and beauty, especially when defaced and slashed and paint-splattered and generally savaged in one of McQueen’s fits of potlatch craziness, belongs in ...”

“... that comes to mind. But then it’s a stage without its players. The models of Germania (of which Andy Warhol and the Prince of Wales’s adviser Léon Krier were fans) indicate that the twin attributes of his buildings were laughable vastness and imaginative impoverishment matched only by the basilica at Yamoussoukro in Ivory Coast. The title Hitler at ...”

“... was the first American artist to take ‘the media’ as his medium. (In this, Welles anticipated Andy Warhol, who also enjoys a posthumous existence as a movie character.) George Orson Welles was born in 1915 and appeared first as the wunderkind whose Shakespeare productions – the ‘Fascist’ Julius Caesar, the ‘voodoo’ Macbeth – dazzled New ...”

“... with a colonial pathology called ‘Puerto Rican syndrome’; here’s a quote from a (real) Andy Warhol letter, in which he mentions his landlady, Jan Gay. Put this together and you end up with a dinosaur that never existed – but it looks plausible enough, so it’s put in a museum until the next generation of researchers comes along and sorts it ...”

“... there. Later on, for friends are loyal, there was a mild effort to represent him as a precursor of Andy Warhol. We need not too much mourn this delusion about his art, so far as Tennant himself is concerned. Had he possessed some small gift, he might well have broken his heart over non-recognition. As it was, he greatly enjoyed drawing and painting and ...”

“... friend and mentor of Mick Jagger and the society antiquaire) ... He fraternised with the Andy Warhol group and experimented with drugs, drag queens, alcohol. Surely, this is what is meant by ‘having a life’? And yet, Lady H. detects a hint of trouble even at such a pinnacle of living. The drugs, drag queens and alcohol ‘and his ...”

“... Bergson and Benjamin. With her repetitions and outrageous banalities, she is a clear forerunner of Andy Warhol, and though she didn’t become really famous until she was in her fifties, her fame has certainly lasted longer than fifteen minutes. Alone among the literary avant garde she has entered popular idiom and not only with a ‘Rose is a rose is a ...”

“... the little red schoolhouse, Martin Luther King’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech, Wall Street, Andy Warhol, the hamburger and Gypsy Rose Lee. In this mixed company, GWTW teeters erratically between Yankee high finance and a chaste, if manipulative stripper. Noticeably the only film on the list, GWTW is a national memorial to American forgetting, a ...”

“... whereby the object becomes the subject’s double’. This, too, can develop into an infinity. Andy Warhol asked: ‘If a mirror looks into another mirror, what will it find?’ And the Swiss poet and philosopher Henri Amiel saw himself ‘like two mirrors that reflect each other and then reflect their reflections, as far as the eye can see’. In ...”

“... Sherman and John Coplans; the sculptors Jeff Koons, Antony Gormley and Marc Quinn; the painters Andy Warhol, Francis Bacon and Jenny Saville; the performance and video artists Joseph Beuys, Rebecca Horn, Bruce Nauman, Arnulf Rainer and Matthew Barney. Their work commonly involves the display of the artists themselves in extremis: Orlan’s increasingly ...”

“... him from post-painterly abstraction. Given Greenberg’s disdain for Duchamp, his distaste for Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg was predictable. But he also dismissed most other major movements of the 1960s and after: Minimal and Conceptual Art’s high-mindedness; the new art forms that focused on the body and performance; and ...”

“... for instance, the iconic and rare-as-hen’s-teeth ‘Multimedia Magazine in a Box’ with work by Andy Warhol, John Cage, John Lennon and Roland Barthes. There’s no shortage of big names mixed in with the obscure stuff – but they’re often not doing what you might expect. As well as Slonimsky’s hymn to Castoria, there are Samuel Beckett’s radio ...”