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Warhol ‘copy’ row engulfs art world
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3215199.stm
Andy Warhol often left assistants to “mass produce” many of his most famous
pictures, among them images of the Campbell soup tin.
edt: snip
The irony in the row is that Warhol himself questioned the idea of “original”
art - choosing everyday items as subjects and producing thousands of prints of
the same work.
Warhol’s most significant achievement -- the denial that real “art” even exists
-- the idea of art is just another stupid label. Not that the idea is very
orginal itself -- I’d say Warhol swiped it from the Dada movement of much
earlier in the century. He just capitalized on the idea so well.
I called this “Waffling” because it’s as much about equivocation as it is about
the fact that I am avoiding cooking some waffles this morning in my 1908
Griswold “American No. 8” waffle iron.
I was gonna go complain about Shrub but we have some house remodelling chores to
perform later in the day too. Never enough time. Never enough slack...
-- Hop-Frog
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| (...) Always a gray area. I have three Ansel Adams photos. Taken from his original negatives, printed by his assistant according to his instructions (Alan Ross, by the way, still the only person approved to make new prints), but they are not (...) (21 years ago, 27-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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