cars, US, early 60s

[Mark Kohut]

I forgot, in the V. paragraph, to remind of the car scenes and car objectivication
in V.    

From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 10:13 PM
Subject: cars, US, early 60s


V. was published in 1963, as we know, with a slightly-changed chapter
first published in 1961. 

Seems, I learned from the "Cars and Andy Warhol" exhibit the other day, that cars were
peaking as subjects among some Zeitgeisty artists in the early sixties. Rosenquist did a famous
work entitled something like Love MeLikeMy Ford in 62, I think.....Claes Oldenburg and
JasperJohns, I think it was, did noticeably received work with car images as well and

Andy hisself stopped using cars in his images in 1964, the iconic images--mostly Cadillacsand Lincolns-- moving to car crash images
during that 60s period [the artist has to come to terms with death sez TRP in Slow Learner] [& for all the Warhol 
experts reading this, he did do Volkswagen ad images in the mid-80s [this a bit late even for ads,yes, but he musta
loved those famous wordy ads.] ]    

I liked best, maybe, one simple large Lincoln drawing, which was basically only the long black side by which even 
we who know nothing about cars can recognize immediately. no wheels, or maybe a back one,no top.etc...
An Unfinished Lincoln,so to speak.

Andy also did some gun silkscreens in the very early 80s, perhaps the right time to emphasisze that change in the culture.
Although Happines is a Warm Gun is the Beatles' most prescient song after When I'm 64? ......(joking here) 
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