... express the very opposite of this myth of total individual freedom. So, he looked not inward but outward, toward easily recognized manifestations of popular culture. Warhol's painting of the Campbell's soup cans is probably one of his most famous images. In his own words, it was an attempt "to paint nothing" (Wollen 167). Yet, the painting is anything but nothing. It ... post World War II American consumer culture. Against the backdrop of increasing American affluence, painting of ever-present mass-marketed consumer goods took on a decidedly nationalist slant. To eat Campbell's soup or ...

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