It is an immigrant's face. In times past, thousands like ithigh cheekbones, timid eyes poked like currants into a doughy Slavic mask, pale from weeks in steeragestreamed through Ellis Island. Add shades, a black jacket and dyed silver hair and you have America's perverse Huck Finn, son of Mrs. Julia Warhola from Mikova, Czechoslovakiaa face that, after Picasso's monkey visage, is perhaps the most instantly recognizable in art today.
The man's popularity is bizarre; his work, in one sense, is not popular at all. You cannot go into a department store and buy...
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