Not P, Warhol

[Mark Thibodeau]

https://www.selfmadehero.com/news/inside-typex-s-andy-the-life-and-times-of-andy-warhol


I bought this massive graphic novel about Andy a while ago (at the last
TCAF, or Toronto Comic Arts Festival), but I haven't read it yet.

Jerky

On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 7:08 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> "in a little bio published in December 1960, the best Warhol could claim
> for himself as an artist, {although he had
> been exhibiting in galleries for years], was that he was doing a bookplate
> for Audrey Hepburn's nursery."--Gopnik
>
> His eureka moment, writes Gopnik, was when he realized the "low-art' of
> magazine illustration and dressing windows,
> that popular, commercial art, could glide effortlessly with the right
> framing and genius choices into that new Pop Art movement
> using and illuminating the anything of the times. From low puns to High
> Art.
>
>
> On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 6:55 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Speaking of Warhol, thanks David, whose birth family and mine were
> > parishioners of the same Church in Pittsburgh. (If you go to the Andy
> Warhol
> > Museum and look at Andy's grave webcam, where flowers and soup cans are
> > placed on his stone and plot, average size,
> > you will see in the upper left a gravestone that reads KOHUT. Yeahp, you
> > can visit me there with my parents for all eternity soon enough
> > after paying homage to Andy.)
> >
> > Gopnik's Warhol will be, after reading only a little, one of the great
> > biographies. Because it is so wonderfully detailed, so wonderfully
> > knowledgeable--he tackles all of the superficial--but many true since
> Andy
> > is all human surface---ways of "explaining' Andy's work thru his life.
> >
> > I'll give two. He has found out that when his dad bought a new house when
> > he was still a kid from a relative he paid cash--about 3 Grand if i
> > remember, which took years
> > of frugal non-drinking hard work, and which included Andy's mother
> selling
> > vegetables and homemade things--but the the sale was recorded as for $1..
> > Tax avoidance which Andy later also worked hard at......(I actually saw
> an
> > example of this when I went one Friday evening to the Warhol Museum
> > for a Reveal, first time ever, opening of one of Andy's time
> > capsules...Andy used to periodically sweep everything in his studio into
> > big boxes and
> > date and seal and store them......This evening I saw IRS letters,
> > receipts, maybe even a marked-up receipt, requests for others to send him
> > letters re his expenses, etc. )
> >
> > And, Andy, whom I knew since his later art school years was seen as the
> > one with the most natural draughtsman's talent any had ever seen, the one
> > who entered art
> > school with little to really learn and all his teachers saw it, was "the
> > one we asked to help draw something when we hung stuff in the classroom"
> > said HIS SECOND GRADE TEACHER!, whom Gopnik found and interviewed.
> >
> > Perfect circles by hand at will from the youngest age. As if hand-eye
> > coordination was a tautology,  Sometime look up his pen and ink drawings
> of
> > street life on the South Side of Pittsburgh, famers selling vegetables
> via
> > trucks, etc.
> >
> > And there's more.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 8:58 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Years ago I got about halfway thru The Recognitions.  It lost me in its
> >> depiction of its Pynchon-like whole sick crew. As such, I never dove
> deep
> >> into its questions about original Vs copied artwork.  Am I wrong to
> suspect
> >> Warhol was his target?
> >>
> >> David Morris
> >>
> >> On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 6:32 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> https://twitter.com/sarahw/status/1256726554748628992?s=20
> >>> --
> >>> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
> >>>
> >>
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