Moma

Somebody taking a digital picture of Andy Warhol’s Soup Cans installation, and I think, how does a blurry snap of Warhol’s soup cans differ from, say, a picture of Campbell’s soup cans in the supermarket? This, I suppose is Warhol’s point. It’s not the image that matters, it’s the context. Not the soup cans, but that the soup cans live in the gallery. One wonders what Warhol would make of his art now lodged in some Schmo’s cell phone. Is this the triumph of recontextualization or the death?

Posted on January 8, 2008
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