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Andy Warhol
The Velvet Underground: Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison, Mo Tucker, and etc.
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This fetishistic transmutation separates Warhol from Duchamp and all his predecessors. For Duchamp, Dada, the Surrealists and all who worked to deconstruct representation and smash the work of art are still part of an avant-garde, and belong, in one way or another, to the critical utopia. For us moderns, at any rate, art has ceased to be an illusion; it has become an idea. It is no longer idolatric now, but critical and utopian, even when -- particularly when -- it demystifies its object or when
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― The Perfect Crime
― The Perfect Crime
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