Andy Warhol
artist · 2 mentions across 2 readings
In this course
Warhol appears in the readings as a theorist of mass production and consumer culture who anticipated the collapse of distinctions between high and low, elite and popular through commodification. His observation about democratic consumption serves the course's argument about how industrial reproducibility and media saturation reshape aesthetic value and social meaning, particularly in how systems (whether capitalist markets or computational ones) flatten hierarchies through standardization. He functions as a pivot point for thinking about how art and ordinary objects become indistinguishable when both circulate through the same machinic systems of reproduction.
Mentioned in 2 readings
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