Unless I am hearing wrong here, I re-hear an aka 1963 dismissal of Warhol's silkscreens (??). I find, and I am far from alone, that many of those series (conceptually and in realization) are flat out brilliant. Talk about period geist and social/capitalist critique and the shear chilly pleasure of looking (say, the Jacqueline Kennedy grieving portrait series) , Warhol has it in spades. Then again Sontag (during the same time frame) dismissed Diane Arbus - in retrospect - rather stupidly - missing the significance of one the great photographers of the 20th century.
Thank goodness Warhol gave up drafting. I would say.
Stephen V
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