Word: marilyns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some gestures of love seem intolerable. The hardest thing to accept in Warhol's passive and ecstatically sanitary affair with the mass product is that he really does love his subject matter. Once granted that he does, his work-in all its range, from Marilyn's face to electric chairs-assumes a startling consistency. His landscape of the American artifact, and the event-as-artifact of the news photo, has a dense and theatrical immediacy. He has in effect christened an area of American experience that had no name in art before...
...heart disease; in Philadelphia. Author of some 30 books, Kohn warned that nationalism, if not peacefully channeled, results in totalitarianism and dictatorship. As a lecturer at Harvard and at Smith College, Kohn struggled "to get people excited over the right things. People need excitement, so they turn to Marilyn Monroe. Or they turn to storm troopers or to Stakhanovism, and these we must object...
...should we conceive of that great legend known as the West? I'd say think of a daisy chain of cowboys and Indians, Charlie Mansons and Sharon Tates, Scott Fitzgeralds and Marilyn Monroes...
...MARILYN Ross Madison...
...MARILYN HARTMANN MORRIS Aliquippa...