OK, that's better. WC
> > > "Fountain" was a coup de thiatre, a declaration of > the license of names. > > But what Duchamp did is not like what Warhol did. > Who ever mistook the > Brillo Boxes as found objects? They were painted to > look like their > model, but they are clearly not actual cardboard > boxes with steel-wool > pads in them. It was the banality of their models > that was the crucial > factor in their succhs de scandale. Moreover, > Warhol's boxes were > *made* to look nearly identical to their models. He > didn't just buy a > box and put it on a plinth. The Brillo Boxes have > more in common with > Johns' Ballentine or coffee cans than with > "Fountain." I don't see > Warhol's works as instruments of anti-art, as > "Fountain" was, but a > bazooka assault on what remained of the theory of > genres, high art > decorum, even the vaunted network of "taste" that > enveloped artistic > sensibilities at mid-century. > > > | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | > Michael Brady > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
