... of performance art. Ishioka's concept falls under postmodernism because the art of eating the egg is a routine procedure that anyone can do, rich or poor ("Postmodernism: From Elite to Mass Culture-, pp.33-34). Warhol once made the comment that "a coke is a coke and no amount of money can get you a better coke than the one a bum on the corner is drinking."" He knew, understood and utilized this ... concept in his postmodern pop art (Fineberg, p. 252). The advertising campaign that Ishioka used worked well. It worked extremely well due to ... the fact that American society liked things ...

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... made Warhol a star. In these early silkscreens, John Cage's chance operations came into play (Smith, 77). The poet Gerard Malanga served as Andy's assistant (Bockris, 333). While in 1962, Warhol showed two paintings of a Coke bottle, first to the filmmaker Emile de Antonio, then to the dealer Ivan Karp, and asked them which he should exhibit. (This is a classic instance of his deferring ... of responsibility. Warhol complicated aesthetic choice further by passing it off, or at least around, often to his assistants.) (Smith, 262) One of the Coke paintings has painterly drips that might ....

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... he loved most (like money) or what everybody would recognize (soup cans and coke bottles). Andy expanded on these ideas and his paintings of the early 60's reflected his progress as a Pop artist. He finally gained the financial success and international fame he had longed for. Although Andy was identified with ... is familiar and accepted American society. Pop art also contains a serious sub-message that is not apparent at first sight. Trewin Copplestone, author of The life and works of Andy Warhol, pointed out that Pop artists were aware of this and exploited it: In Warhol's later disast...

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... he loved most (like money) or what everybody would recognize (soup cans and coke bottles). Andy expanded on these ideas and his paintings of the early 60's reflected his progress as a Pop artist. He finally gained the financial success and international fame he had longed for. Although Andy was identified with ... is familiar and accepted American society. Pop art also contains a serious sub-message that is not apparent at first sight. Trewin Copplestone, author of The life and works of Andy Warhol, pointed out that Pop artists were aware of this and exploited it: In Warhol's later disast...

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... for himself as a "pop artist". Andy concentrated on and drew his inspiration from popular culture. However, he heightened the colors and changed the scale to make the images larger than life. In doing so he redefined pictorial realism and extended its concept (Nicholson 8-10). Warhol's ... identifiable works were brightly colored prints that put an iconic spin on famous figures such as Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, and Mick Jagger, the one in the Cochran Collection (Fogde). Warhol died unexpectedly on Sunday, February 22, 1987, at a New York hospital, while recovering from a successful ... gal...

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... commercialism and conformitiy. In fact, Andy Warhol called his studio a factory, here he mass produced his silk screened work of art. In 1963 Andy said that "Paintings are too hard. The things I want to show are mechanical. Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine, wouldn't you?" (Warhol, 1963). Andy also claimed he was influenced by Marcel Duchamp who was ... to emphisze his unoriginality in his art, but at the same time he tried to be orginal in apperences and his life style. "The Pop artists did images that anybody walking down Broadway could recognize in a split second...

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