Word: warholism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weighty and old-masterly effects, and was never to regain the same energy. Vlaminck plummeted into coarse self-parody, Dufy tended more and more to crank out pretty little furniture-pictures, and Van Dongen simply fell apart, becoming-in his meaningless virtuosity and appeal to cafe society-an Andy Warhol with red corpuscles. The brief moment of Fauvism was over; naturally, since it was synonymous with youth itself...
Jimi Hendrix. Brian Jones. William Burroughs. Andy Warhol. Janis Joplin. Lou Reed. Edith Piaf. Baudelaire. Norman Mailer. Rastafarianism. Playwright Sam Shepherd...
Night life at Ravello is generally subdued. Visitors to La Rondinaia have included Princess Margaret, the Newmans, Andy Warhol and Mick and Bianca Jagger, but Vidal spends most evenings alone, reading until 3 a.m.-usually research for what he will write the next...
...symmetry of Marilyn Monroe or even a Campbell's soup can, but no matter. Willy Brandt, 62, former Chancellor of West Germany and 1971 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, put on a smile and a pin-stripe suit to pose for Pop Artist Andy Warhol in a Bonn art gallery. Brandt stood patiently for half an hour as Warhol clicked off more than two dozen Polaroid pictures, to be used later to manufacture the politician's portrait. Though Andy will collect a commission for the finished work, which will be auctioned off for the benefit of UNICEF...
...Philosopher Ortega y Gasset, 40 years ago, is the right to continuity. It is that essential link with the past that Bell is intent on reforging. Others are entering similar pleas, but Bell's seems the most brilliantly argued. Moving fluently from Marx to Mallarmé to Andy Warhol, he makes use of modernists' own arguments to reject their conclusions. His adversaries should have no trouble understanding him and perhaps heeding him. Bell's book is the year's most promising start on the long road back to civitas...