Word: warholism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...utopianists or revolutionaries or rising young politicos or academics. Ken Kesey's letter to Tim Leary in Rolling Stone is as much the kind of supercilious grandstanding that Brooks is talking about as are Stalin's daughter's Twenty Letters to a Friend. David Susskind, Erich Segal and Andy Warhol are all part of the same American game. Everyone plays to the audience...
Trash is too flattering a label; even refuse once meant something to someone. These dilated sketches merely constitute another Andy Warhol movie. This time the Master has tiptoed into the background as producer. The direction, writing and photography are all ascribed to Paul Morrissey, Warhol's publicist, who carries on in the gland tradition...
...last and by every means least, a raucous female impersonator named Holly (Holly Woodlawn). In the film's climactic scene, Holly stuffs a pillow under its sweater, feigning pregnancy to con an uptight, upright social worker out of welfare money. Those who can respect Trash will hasten Warhol & Co. to their ultimate alchemy, the recovery of gold from garbage. Stefan Kanfer
...fall Sunday evening and only a few artists remain, straggling under spotlighted trees across the shaven lawns of Philip Johnson's 32-acre New Canaan precinct. All the millionaires and collectors have gone home. Andy Warhol, in black jacket and silver wig, looking like the Angel of Death quitting Jerusalem, left ten minutes ago. Robert Rauschenberg lingers on, and though a lady art critic is locked in Johnson's subterranean painting gallery with a young artist who is slapping her around for undetermined reasons, the place is quiet. Above the Morrises, Judds and Oldenbergs, lights still burn...
...ANDY WARHOL, who struck out boldly into the high and far-off hinterlands of tedium to develop its commercial possibilities as entertainment in the name of avant-garde and to create himself in his own image. JOHN and YOKO ONO LENNON, who have collaborated in making over the No. 1 Beatle from a witty and light-hearted songwriter into a salvation-dispensing preacher for peace and porn...