Word: soups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With Brillo, Heinz and Campbell Soup boxes piled to the ceiling. Warhol last spring turned the gallery into a supermarket. This season it looks more like a florist's. One hundred canvases, popping with big blossoms in every conceivable color, cover Castelli's walls. Through...
...position of a mandarin: his aim is to make art about art. In his beach house on Edisto Island, S.C., and his Riverside Drive penthouse in Manhattan, Johns surrounds himself with art works of his friends, from Marcel Duchamp's Dada gimcracks to Andy Warhol's soup boxes, which he uses in lieu of extra furniture. He is a chess player and keeps a library substantial in such stiff favorite reading as Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus-Logicos Philosophi-cus. Johns also keeps on hand an inexhaustible supply of beer, which, in a way, has crept into...
...Bedlam. When they are not dancing or screaming, they stab the furniture with hatpins, chip the plaster, bring in termites, pulverize the best china, wallop their mistress, throw fish at her daughter, uncork the wine vat, scrape rubbish off the floor and dump it into the master's soup. "What did you put in the closet?" asks one. "The chicken droppings," replies the sister...
Nearly every major U.S. food company has taken a bite. Since 1958, Campbell Soup has laid out about $50 million to start operations in Britain, Italy, Belgium, France, Mexico and Australia. Beatrice Foods, strictly domestic only three years ago, now has plants, joint ventures and franchise agreements to turn out dairy products, candies and snacks in 17 countries. Corn Products has built up an extensive world empire of 63 plants in 27 countries; Borden has 30 overseas plants, General Foods 23, Kellogg 19 and General Mills five. H. J. Heinz, General Foods and Kellogg have all opened plants in Japan...
Kellogg and Quaker Oats have seized 73% of the growing market for breakfast cereals in Britain, Heinz 63% of that country's $70 million-a-year baked-bean market and 61% of its canned-soup bowl. Led by General Mills, National Biscuit and Pillsbury, U.S. companies now control half of the French biscuit business. A Carnation subsidiary produces 85% of all the evaporated milk sold in France, and Corn Products' Knorr soups have half the German market. In Germany, a Kraft Foods subsidiary sells a line of 100 products, including cheeses and complete packaged spaghetti or rice dinners...