The Inversion of the Duality

Lichtenstein was trying to take Pop Art and elevate it into the cultural space. But then at some point that opposition just collapses, he says. Lichtenstein's art is of course to manifest the reproducibility, the mechanical reproduction of the art object. Warhol did quite a bit of religious art. He really called to the movement towards mechanical art and reproducible art in order to destroy the sacred.

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