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...Regarding the article on Andy Warhol [May 17], I'd first like to mention that if it is l'art pour l'art he is after, he has definitely filled the bill and in a new way. Secondly, Warhol celebrates the victorious condition of mass production. If mass production is not what is victorious and heroic, then Henry Ford has been vastly overrated. And who said anything about morality when Ford produced autos...
THERE'S a really moving moment in Flesh, a silent stretch of film invested with a stunning measure of poetry. Joe, nude, feeds little pieces of cupcake to a baby; both of them are highlighted against a splendid Oriental rug. Warhol people have done more to explore the aesthetics of the naked body than any other film troupe, even if their efforts are occasionally in disastrously bad taste...
...number of features in the fabric of the collective American sexual unconscious. Is there less potential for exploiting men's bodies than women's bodies? Are female bodies aesthetically more interesting (arresting, arousing, subtle) than male bodies, or has male dominion fixed that as a conditioned response? Is Warhol putting us on, or-in some insane, frenetic, and stupendous way-is he really on to something basic about the ways in which we look at ourselves...
...ANDY WARHOL recapitulates our America. Our world, Andy's world, is a thing place; Andy's art is about an environment so choked with objects that the distinctions between me and not-me have become blurred. The nature-culture axis is connected to the crazy thermostat of popular notions, and even structures-social structures, like museums; intellectual structures, like aesthetics; subconscious structures, like the idea of the comic-are the proper subjects of large-scale pop art. Andy was the first person to point out that doing one thing a large number of times is both artistically interesting and perverse...
...course, it's silly to treat Andy Warhol seriously. Flesh is lewd, boring, perverse, fitfully amusing, spastically imaginative, and definitely kicky. So is Andy. And so, in our better moments, are most...