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14 ANDY WARHOL, 1928–1987, COMMERCE INTO ART Dollar Signs 1981 Acrylic and silkscreen on canvas 90 x 70 in
Cow Wallpaper 1966 Silkscreen on paper 44 x 30 in of tragedy—Marilyn Monroe tried, desperately and in vain, to rid herself of the stereotype image of the dumb blonde sex symbol; Elvis Presley frequently fell into fits of depression; and Liz Taylor constantly struggled with health problems. It is not the least surprising that Andy Warhol identified, in part, with these stars. The cult of success is the bond that unites the whole country of the United States of America. Andy Warhol wanted to be one of its High Priests. He himself determinedly created his own legend. “I had had three nervous breakdowns when I was a child, spaced a year apart. One when I was eight, one at nine, and one at ten. The attacks always started on the first day of summer vacation. I don’t know what this meant. I would spend all summer listening to the radio and lying in bed with my Charlie McCarthy doll and my un-cut-out cut-out paper dolls all over the spread and under the pillow. My father was away a lot on business trips to the coal mines, so I never saw him very much. My mother would read to me in her thick Czechoslovakian accent as best she could and I would always say “Thanks, Mom,” after she finished with Dick Tracy, even if I hadn’t understood a word. She’d give me a Hershey Bar every time I finished a page in my coloring book.” In the department store where he worked during his summer holidays Warhol came into contact for the first time with the world which was later to become his own specific world—the world of consumer advertising. As the son of European immigrants, with a mother who never mastered the English language, his early years were filled ANDY WARHOL FIRST POP STAR OF THE ART WORLD 15
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