Word: artes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other Literature and Arts B courses, "Jazz" and "Modern Art and Abstraction," were also lotteried because of high student turnouts...
...cans or dollar bills never acquire the pressure of the silk-screened ones, but it is hard to see how they could: those coarsely nuanced rows of ready-mades, in taking Duchamp a small step further, remain the most eloquent comments on the standardization of mass taste in American art. On desire, Warhol could be dreadfully accurate. His idea of silk-screening Marilyn Monroe's disembodied smile 168 times over derived, no doubt, from Man Ray's painting of Kiki de Montparnasse's lips floating in the Paris sky, but the feeling is quite different. It is about the administration...
...intensity of these early images is closely linked to the rapture with which Warhol first discovered his own ability to use detachment -- to make art with what he had, out of his sense that high art had actually dissolved into mass media. When this ceased to surprise him, his work came too pat. It coarsened and turned industrial. Even his later images of foreboding and death, like the skulls, are trashily melodramatic by comparison with what had gone before, while his inflated recyclings of Raphael's Sistine Madonna and Leonardo's Last Supper could scarcely be more pointless...
...ART: Reassessing the best and worst of Andy Warhol
...ART DIRECTOR: Rudolph C. Hoglund...