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HOLY TERROR Andy Warhol Close up, Bob Colacello
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HOLY TERROR Andy Warhol Close up, Bob Colacello, Hardcover i fin stand. Med omslagsblad. Fragt 57kr (Bogen vejer over 1 kilo)
Amerikansk 1. udgave 1990 Forlaget Harper & Collins.
Bogen er på engelsk.
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Holy Terror’s 514 gossip-fueled pages resonated with me so strongly because it was the first time I had ever learned about a homosexual who had both cultural and economic power and respect. I was also struck by Warhol’s collective approach to creativity. Once he established his own unique entry point into fame, he was emotionally and economically dedicated to building platforms that amplified his world view, and extending the invitation to other queer people, eccentrics, and societal outcasts. Their eventual fame, of course, was key in expanding his own, but the result was a broad newfound respect for talent that fell outside the narrow mainstream standards of the day. At the center of the center, Warhol created a world where queerness was not discouraged or merely tolerated but harnessed as a libidinous outsider frequency that moved both art and commerce forward. Learning about this in Colacello’s memoir, was the first time I ever realized there was a place in America where I might not have to censor myself in order to thrive.
Thinking about Warhol’s legacy through the lens of architecture, his Factory
could be considered one of most successful queer spaces in history, a clubhouse and workshop that projected images of queer and trans identities and same-sex desire and intimacy all over the Western world. But Warhol’s instinct was never born of politics alone.
Colacello writes: “Gay was not a word we used at the Factory, at least not to refer to homosexuality. Andy preferred ‘has a problem’... [...] Our nonchalance was infuriating to the rising generation of liberated homosexuals who had seen Andy Warhol as a vanguard figure. But Andy didn’t care about the correct political line; he cared about the correct style. [...] In the 60s, to be openly gay..
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