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...American tradition. "What's great about this country," Andy Warhol wrote, "is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink a Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke, and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good. Liz Taylor...
...Andy Warhol said, was "about liking things." Around 1960 -- actually a few years before that, if you date it from the early combine- paintings of Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns' flags and targets and, earlier in the '50s still, the work of Larry Rivers -- a number of young artists emerged in New York City, Paris and London who had little in common beyond their curiosity about the largely disparaged sea of mass media and commercial persuasion: ads, billboards, newsprint, TV montage and all kinds of kitsch. In the '20s Dadaists and Surrealists had been fascinated by this too, but Pop art dived...
...make money out of soap flakes, and buy art based on soap-flake advertisements." The difficulties were invented later, mainly by critics who wanted to claim for Pop the depth and resonance of "classical" Modernism. You can't read what some of them wrote about the supposed profundities of Warhol's alienation without wanting to laugh out loud...
...royalty and rock stars -- in fact, to anyone who is secure enough or desperate enough to want to stand out. Right now he is making shirts with looped embroidery across the chest. "I use denim as a symbol of our times," says Moschino, "in the same way that Andy Warhol, in his Pop Art, used wartime camouflage painted over faces, to give them a contemporary impression." He notes another important virtue of denim: "It makes you look younger...
...must recognize, I suppose, as Arthur Schlesinger once said about the American Civil War, that history is not a redeemer promising to solve all problems in time. The situation could get worse in every one of these countries. And keep in mind another element here, the Andy Warhol line about everyone being a celebrity for 15 minutes. Well, Eastern Europe has had its 15 minutes. But you can't tear the Berlin Wall down a second time...