Word: warholism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pioneer among the American "film-as-art"-ists, Brakhage's goal is to make films which will maintain lasting value and sustain an infinite number of screenings. As such his medium is hardly the mass-age: Joyce and Picasso imply Brakhage far more directly than do Warner Bros. or Warhol. In fact, Brakhage's relationship to the tidal wave of free-form image-ination films is strikingly similar to Picasso's to cubism...
People were not buying as much meat in restaurants, some of which offered meatless menus. There were occasional unrepentant carnivores. At La Goulue, a new Manhattan restaurant where the chic meet to eat, Salvador Dali, Andy Warhol, Ultra Violet and Candy Darling feasted on lamb chops one afternoon last week. But at a nearby table Prince Rainier and Princess Grace of Monaco observed the boycott by lunching on salad...
...makeup; Nauman distending his mouth in froggy grimaces at the camera; Nauman Walking in an Exaggerated Manner Around the Perimeter of a Square; and an effort named Bouncing Balls, 1969, a long closeup of Nauman's unremarkable testicles jiggling up and down. It makes the most tedious of Warhol's movies seem like the chase scene in Bullitt. Every so often, Nauman inflects the monotony a little by putting the camera on its side, or (daring innovation!) upside down. And occasionally he gives the tape some irritant value, as in an inverted closeup of his own face repeating...
...gargantuan 20,000-word interview in Rolling Stone, with Andy Warhol asking the questions, Truman Capote talks about a rambling array of subjects, including his half-finished, long-promised 800-page novel, Answered Prayers. It is, says Capote, about real people after World War II. One of them is a 19-year-old college girl who has an affair with her roommate's father. And the father is presidential timber. At least he thinks he is. Before four consecutive nominating conventions, he confidently expects to be the Republican candidate. Who is the character modeled after? Capote coyly refuses...
...have the nagging feeling that Castaneda's Don Juan is Warhol's tomato-soup...