Word: warholism
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...quality of the lyrics is what makes the book such a tour de force. Most surprising are the prose-poems "The Gift," "The Murder Mystery" and "A Dream," each of which works through Reed's personal debts to Delmore Schwarz, John Cale and Andy Warhol while it confronts the grand masters of modernism: Baudelaire, Mallarme and Joyce...
Each era has its high points, often about unsuspected topics. "The Black Angel's Death Song" revolves on the paradoxes of the will encountering language, the language of choice, and violence. "Andy's Chest," inspired by the Richard Avedon photo of Warhol's bullet-scarred body, concludes with the thickest description of the Warholian psyche...
...York songs--Reed includes all 14 of them--are followed by the material from Songs for 'Drella a tribute to Warhol that Reed and John Cale created, in which Reed again crawls into Warhol's head like it was his second home...
...Warhol wanted a democratic culture, but he had no illusions about individuality. "Someone said Brecht wanted everybody to think alike. I want everybody to think alike. But Brecht wanted to do it through Communism, in a way. Russia is doing it under government. It's happening here all by itself without being under a strict government; so if it's working without trying, why can't it work without being Communist? Everybody looks alike and acts alike, and we're getting more and more that...
...That was Warhol's ideal, and he got what he wanted. But, the Gap promises uniformity not uniqueness, and this is its terrible danger. Promising what it cannot deliver, Gapification erodes our senses of place and self, with huge social costs...