Art: King of the Banal

"A movie producer friend of mine hit on something when he said, 'Frigid people really make out.' He's right: they really can and they really do." The best proof of this Warholism is, of course, Andy Warhol himself, who in the 20 years since his days as a shoe illustrator for I. Miller has managed to parlay his cool into one of the social myths of our time. During the '60s, Warhol's silence about himself and his knowingly dumb utterances about the culture he helped form—"Pop art is liking things"—underwrote his durability as a star. Indeed, his banality endowed him with...

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