White-on-white: The overbearing whiteness of Warhol being.(Andy Warhol)

From: Art Journal | Date: March 22, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Vacant, vacuous Hollywood was everything I ever wanted to mold my life into. Plastic. White-on-white.

--Andy Warhol and Pat Hackett, Popism

Elvis was a hero to most,

But he never meant shit to me 'cause he was straight up racist,

The sucker was simple and plain,

Motherfuck him and John Wayne.

--Public Enemy, "Fight the Power"

In his essay "Warhol Gives Good Face: Publicity and the Politics of Prosopopoeia," Jonathan Flatley persuasively argues that the use of a Pop aesthetic allowed Andy Warhol to gain access to the public sphere and "bring himself ...

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