Word: warholian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Coupling commercial techno-kitsch with the masterworks of Van Gogh and Picasso is like crossing the book Private Parts by Howard Stern with the Civil War diaries of Mary Chestnut. Thank you, Vegas, for your attempts at high art, but no thanks. A Warholian approach might have been more fitting. DOUG HATCH Madison...
...much for the Warholian interlude of a 45-year-old North Carolinian named Bobby Shivar, on whom fame and fortune smiled very warmly, and all too briefly, last week. As the winner of the Gillette 3-Point Challenge promotional campaign, Bobby was given $25,000 and flown to the NCAA Final Four weekend in New Orleans to take his single -- and, as it turned out, not quite ! accurate -- shot for a million. Then it all started vanishing like a dream. Within days, he was back at work fixing the aging steam pipes around Camp Lejeune. Back in his neat three...
...Karen Kilimnik. (Williams can't draw at all, although her installation The Sweet and Pungent Smell of Success includes a dandy splotch of plastic vomit.) Their work, says the catalog, "deliberately renounces success and power in favor of the degraded and dysfunctional, transforming deficiencies into something positive in true Warholian fashion." Presumably if they weren't vigilant with themselves, they might turn into teensy Titians, engorged with mastery...
...high points, often about unsuspected topics. "The Black Angel's Death Song" revolves on the paradoxes of the will encountering language, the language of choice, and violence. "Andy's Chest," inspired by the Richard Avedon photo of Warhol's bullet-scarred body, concludes with the thickest description of the Warholian psyche...
...into Warhol's private bathroom so that he can catalog the anti-aging cosmetics and acne ointments for inclusion on the last page of this book. These two creatures of hype and commerce masquerading as art may have deserved each other. But this book does not deserve even a Warholian 15 minutes...