... mock-expressive" style that mocked the gestural brushwork of Abstract Expressionism, and are among the first examples of what came to be known as Pop Art. Warhol's works during the early 60's are among those for which he is best known for. He reproduced advertisements and cartoons, ... instant celebrity, having gone from respected commercial illustrator to controversial and influential artist. Such Pop Art images as Warhol's soup cans and Lichtenstein's comic book panels jumped from the vast American consumer culture into the realm of high artistic and aesthetic recognition. It is not kn...

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... his superficiality in both spheres in a carefully deadpan performance of innocent unconcern. From this, he left us with one central insight: that in a culture gutted with information, where most people experience most things through second or third hand through T.V. and print, through images that become banal and disassociated ... 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...

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... what is not. In his text, Zampano touches on subjects as varied as Heidegger and Greek mythology. He also meticulously documents all his sources with footnotes. Although Zampano includes many pop culture references ""Rosie O'Donell, however, offered a different perspective when she wryly remarked on Entertainment Tonight: The fact that Holloway waited that long to use a compass only goes to show how ... ...

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