276 - The End Of Desacrilization in Art
The Symbolic World
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What Happens When Warhol Makes Soup Cans?
In some ways what Warhol is trying to do is to praise the soup can, praise the common, make it, bring it up into the elite space. But he's also denaturing it while he's doing it. Then of a sudden there's this flip where now Warhol's designs of the soup cans get put on the actual cans. And so you can go to the store and then you can buy an Andy Warhol soup can and you can eat the food inside the soup can. It starts to happen weirdly in other artists as well. Another pop artist especially. Keith Herring was selling t-shirts with his art. He was putting it on skateboards on different
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