Rich makes it sound so balanced: act and text, of equal import, in a kind of equilibrium with each other. That’s not how the world has seen it—Harron’s film title I Shot Andy Warhol says it all—it is the shooting for which she is remembered. But Solanas believed her text to be as important as her act. Her words eerily conjure a new way of looking at the problem of separating the art from the artist: Does the manifesto justify the shooting? Or does the shooting vindicate the manuscript? Is she the manifesto? Or is she the shooting? Text or action? Word or woman? Of course, we’ll never be able
...more
