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Americans who deplore crime and disorder might consider the case of Andy Warhol, who for years has celebrated every form of licentiousness. Like some Nathanael West hero, the pop-art king was the blond guru of a nightmare world, photographing depravity and calling it truth. He surrounded himself with freakily named people-Viva, Ultra Violet, International Velvet, Ingrid Superstar-playing games of lust, perversion, drug addiction and brutality before his crotchety cameras. Last week one of his grotesque bit players made the game quite real...
From the start, Warhol worked to a chorus of cheers and jeers. Campbell soup-can silk screens ladeled him with fame, becoming artistic beacons gazing at life's banal objects with a wan, reportorial eye. Turning to moviemaking, he lifted the underground cinema's popularity to new heights while sinking the contents to sadistic depths. His bent is parody and plotlessness, and he has a whimsical flair. Sleep shows six hours of just that; Empire, eight hours long, stars the Empire State Building. ****-the title spoofs film ratings-originally lasted all day and night...
...surprise as the contents. Billed as a quarterly, Aspen comes out when Mrs. Johnson manages to get it out. "All the artists are such shadowy characters," she says, "that it takes months to track them down." To provide designs for issues she has called on the services of Andy Warhol and Quentin Fiore, co-author with Marshall McLuhan of The Medium is the Massage. She is collaborating with Buckminster Fuller on a future issue in which each article will be designed to fold into a geodesic dome or other geometric construction. Also in the works is an issue devoted...
Cunningham's dance does demand a prepared or prewarned audience. Like the abstract artists who design his sets and costumes--Frank Stella, Warhol, and Rauschenberg--and the electronic musicians composing his scores--John Cage, David Tudor, and Earl Brown (husband of Carolyn Brown)--Cunningham explicitly denies traditional unities of the dance...
Rain Forest, composed this year, was performed in white, tight-fitting rags and tatters on a dead-black stage dec orated by Pop Artist Andy Warhol with 25 large pillows made of aluminum foil. Inflated with helium, they floated about among the dancers (and occasionally into the audience) while electronic music by David Tudor wailed and chattered...