Wallpaper Mao: Don DeLillo, Andy Warhol, and Seriality.(Critical Essay)

From: CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction | Date: June 22, 2001| Author: KARNICKY, JEFFREY | Copyright information

Andy Warhol appears in two of Don DeLillo's novels, Mao II and Underworld. Mao II takes its title from a Warhol silkscreen that also adorns the cover of the novel; in the novel, DeLillo's characters look at Warhol's work in museums and offer theories about the work's power. Warhol is less of a factor in Underworld. He appears only once, in the chapter describing Truman Capote's Black and White Ball--"Andy Warhol walked by wearing a mask that was a photograph of his own face" (571)-...

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