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In this conceptual approach to making art, Warhol inherited the legacy of Marcel Duchamp, an artist he knew, admired, painted, and filmed. Like Duchamp's ready-mades, the ultimate importance of a work by Warhol is not who physically made each object, but the ideas it generates. As the son of immigrants, Warhol in his early works returned again and again to the theme of America itself. What else are the paintings of cheap advertisements for nose jobs and dance lessons concerned with if not the American dream and the price of conformity it exacts? As soon as he'd examined the American obsession with celebrity and glamour in the portraits of Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe, he was quick to show its race riots and electric chair. Unlike Duchamp's, his was a highly public art, one that criss-crossed between high art, popular culture, commerce, and daily life.
Everything that passed before Warhol's basilisk gaze—celebrities, socialites, speed freaks, rock bands, film, and fashion—he imprinted with his deadpan mixture of glamour and humor, then cast them back into the world as narcissistic reflections of his own personality. This is what makes him one of the most complex and elusive figures in the history of art.
By Richard Dorment | The New York Review of Books
Watch money. Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent but by compulsion, when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing, when you see that money is flowing to those who deal not in goods but in favors, when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you, when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed.
Excerpt from Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand, 1957.
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From Cool Hunting | by Doug Black
The 26 letters of the Roman alphabet operate almost subconsciously once ingrained in young minds. The resulting familiarity proves invaluable in life, but also makes it difficult to step back and examine letters as standalone objects. In "Letter by Letter", designer/calligrapher/artist Laurent Pflughaupt aims to do just that with an exhaustive overview of each letter in the alphabet.
He begins with a historical look at the creation of early alphabets,
starting with ancient hieroglyphics and proceeding to our current
Latin-based system. Next, he takes a formal analysis of their physical
structure using base-level observations while regarding letters as
simple combinations of straight and curved lines. The third and final
section occupies the bulk of the book. As the subtitle suggests,
Pflughaupt looks at each letter alphabetically, tracing their evolution
and noting their acute significance in various cultures. He borrows
from many different fields, looking at structure through the lens of
paleography, phonetics and graphic design. (Note below variations on
the modern "Q" and "R.") Though necessarily rudimentary at times,
"Letter by Letter" is an exemplary reference for those interested in
typography or language in general.
"Letter by Letter" will be available through Princeton Architectural Press when it's released on 1 May 2008. You can also order it now from Amazon.
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