«GEE, THAT'S GREAT!»

MEA CULPA POUR LA GAUCHE: LA LEÇON QUI POINTE DE CAMILLE PAGLIA À ANDY WARHOL.

On oublie souvent que Camille Paglia est avant tout une historienne de l'art. Et à ce titre elle continue de rappeler à travers son oeuvre les ravages causés par le carriérisme pseudo gauchiste universitaire des trente dernières années. Comme elle a toujours rappelé qu'on devrait s'attarder davantage aux leçons d'un artiste comme Andy Warhol plutôt qu'aux Derrida, Baudrillard ou Foucault. Résultat de ces erreurs et négligences? Sarkozy est aujourd'hui élu en France, un gouvernement conservateur dirige le Canada et Bush a été réélu pour un second mandat. Or le plus ironique dans tout cela c'est que la gauche ne semble toujours pas comprendre. Plus elle n'aura comme figures majeures que des voix provenant du monde syndical ou du monde des sciences humaines universitaire dans sa version «publish or perish», plus elle continuera de perdre des plumes...

PHILOSOPHY BOOK FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

When they are going to look at the beginning of the 21 st century historians of the future will call it «the cultural dumbing down decade».

THE HOLLYWOOD FASCINATION

HUMOR 101

«If a person isn't generally considered beautiful, they can still be a success if they have a few jokes in their pockets. And a lot of pockets».

-Andy Warhol

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE NEWS MAGAZINE WILL WRITE: 10 BEST AND WORST BODIES IN WASHINGTON!

«ATHLETES ARE GOING TO BE THE NEW MEDIA STARS»

PHILOSOPHY BOOK FOR THE 21 ST CENTURY: DONALD TRUMP AND THE ORANGES

People always say that you should think about people who are less fortunate than you when you feel depressed. But actually it doesn't work. I know some people are starving but I also know that i'm not going to be starving tomorrow and I know I won't be hanging out on Fifth Avenue either. So since I can't relate to any of those human condition in my daily life it doesn't make me any good to think about it. But thinking about the human condition of people who lived centuries ago or the one of people who will be living in 200 years from now really can make you feel better. Back then in the 17 th century for exemple people didn't have all the conveniences we have now and the rich thought they were so grand because they were able to afford apples and oranges in winter.

Now we also know that one day people will be immortal. So the people in the future who will have conquered immortality will look at someone like Donald Trump as a kind of guy who liked to show off he was able to afford the «apples and oranges» or the late 20th and early 21 st centuries. And they will think:« that's it? "When you think about that it's really easy to feel great about what you have. But at the same time it would be bad if everybody started to think that way because it would really hurt the economy.I mean who would buy the $29 Jessica inspired dress for plus size women?

«MUSCLES ARE GREAT»

SHOW BUSINESS 101

«Tab Hunter should star in the movie of my life. People would be much happier imagining that I was as handsome as that. I mean, the real Bonnie and Clyde sure didn't look like Faye and Warren.Who wants the truth? That's what show business if for, to prove that it's not what you are that counts, it's what they think you are».

-Andy Warhol.

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE A WOMEN MAGAZINE WILL WRITE: HAVE A BONE STRUCTURE REDUCTION SURGERY, LOOK 18 AT 80 AND GET A MAN!

WARHOL AND THE BEAUTY OBSESSION

PHILOSOPHY BOOK FOR THE 21 ST CENTURY: MONEY IS TIME

People say time is money. But actually it's the opposite. If you go to the dollar store you're never the first in line and you always have to wait while the fillipino lady is paying for some cheap plastic toys for her 7 kids. But if you're rich you never have to wait in line to drop some $ 500 000 at Chanel or 25 million on a new painting. That's really the best part of having money.

POST WARHOL PREDICTION:IN THE FUTURE A COSMETIC COMPANY WILL LAUNCH A «SMOG ALERT DAYS» MOISTURIZING CREAM

«I NEVER MET AN ANIMAL I DIDN'T LIKE»

PHILOSOPHY BOOK FOR THE 21 ST CENTURY:

Panhandlers have really the best marketing techniques now. Walked on the street yesterday and saw this girl with a sign «Good Karma 25 cents».

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE FITNESS MAGAZINE WILL WRITE: GET A BACK SEAT OF THE CAR BODY FOR SEPTEMBER!

WARHOL AS WRESTLING FAN

IRVING BLUM

«Irving Blum monte la première exposition qu'Andy Warhol eu jamais eu en juin 1962. Elle est représentée de 32 peintures représentant des boîtes de soupe Campbell «À l'époque il existait 32 saveurs dans cette marque » explique le marchand. J'en ai vendu cinq mais très vite j'ai réalisé que l'intérêt tenait à l'intégralité de la série». Plus collectionneur que marchand. «Mon idée était de les garder toutes. J'ai téléphoné à Andy et je lui ai parlé de mon projet spécial. Il m'a vendu l'ensemble pour $1000 payables en un an et j'ai racheté les 5 tableaux manquants à ceux auxquels je les avais vendus.»

Beaucoup plus tard en 1995 Irving Blum a vendu au MOMA l'intégralité de la série Cambell Soup pour 15 millions de dollars.


-L'écho des Savanes
25 mai 2007

POST WARHOL PREDICTION:IN THE FUTURE CELEBRITY MAGAZINE WILL WRITE:HOW TO MOVE YOUR LIPS LIKE ANGELINA WHEN MAKING A SCENE AT THE DOLLAR STORE!

«GEE, THAT'S GREAT!»

THE RIGHT LOOK

«We went outside to try to get a cab but we couldn't. Then along came a white guy and a black girl in a car who offered us a ride anywhere we wanted to go and we took it. They said that Stevie wouldn't let them in to Studio 54 because they didn't look right, but they looked okay to me-I mean he looked like a fairy and she looked like a drag queen, it was the Studio 54 look».

-The Andy Warhol Diaries.
January 1 1978

THE BEAUTY OBSESSION

POST WARHOL PREDICTION:IN THE FUTURE A CAR COMPANY WILL ADVERTISE: BUY THIS 2050 MODEL NOW AND GET ANOTHER ONE FOR FREE IN THE AFTERLIFE!

PHILOSOPHY BOOK FOR THE 21 ST CENTURY:

I like the idea of people saying arts and litterature are too irrational and then gaining or losing thousands of dollars in one day on the stock exchange because of rumors about some president overseas...

«IN THE FUTURE EVERYONE WILL BE WORLD FAMOUS FOR FIFTEEN MINUTES»

BEAUTY AND THE WAR

«But tell me why is that everybody is so good-looking now. In the fifties there were really good-looking people and then all the rest who weren't. Today, everybody is at least attractive. How did it happen? Is it because there's no wars to kill the beauties?»

-The Andy Warhol Diaries
August 16 1982

POST WARHOL PREDICTION:IN THE FUTURE WOMAN MAGAZINE WILL WRITE: FORGET ABOUT YOUR SON IN IRAQ AND MINIMIZE YOUR STRESS INDUCED WRINKLES EXPRESSION»!

THE HOLLYWOOD FASCINATION

PHILOSOPHY BOOK FOR THE 21 ST CENTURY:

People say nobody read books now. They say it's because people don't have time to read anymore but actually that's not right. These days the only value left is money. So the rich want to make sure they are not doing an activity the poor can do. Could you imagine a billionnaire reading Proust and then discovering that some poor dude did the same at the public library? What would be the point of being billionaire? I guess that's why now you have all the really rich people buying 50 millions dollars golf club membership or buying cars they're never going to drive or 80 millions dollars painting they don't really like. So this way they know they will never run into some poor guy telling them he was on the same yacht as them in Monte Carlo last week and it really makes them feel great. I guess it's the same for beauty. Ugly people are the pleasure of beautiful ones, dumb people the pleasure of intelligent ones, and poor people the pleasure of rich ones.

Centuries ago people were saying that you shouldn't show how the kings and queens were living because people would revolt. Now people would revolt if you don't show them how the rich live while they're watching TV alone at night eating hot dogs. Isn't it a great century?

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE AN AMERICAN PREACHER WILL DECLARE:«GLOBAL WARMING IS CAUSED BY EXCESSIVE HUMAN SEXUAL ACTIVITY»

«GEE, THAT'S GREAT!»

THE FACTORY

«With the advent of reality TV MySpace, You Tube Warhol's prediction of fleeting fame for all has proven uncannily present. But according to (Billy) Name the Factory has closed for good.«You couldn't have the factory today. It was a very specific phenomenon in the 1960's right when America became the center of the art world» he says. But the legacy of the factory is still living art. We were like the roots of this great big cultural tree-I hope people realize it's still there for them to climb».

Time Out New York
Feb 15-21 2007

«I NEVER MET AN ANIMAL I DIDN'T LIKE»

POST WARHOL PREDICTION:IN THE FUTURE A MEN'S MAGAZINE WILL WRITE:100 DIFFERENT BODY TYPES TO HAVE SEX WITH BEFORE YOU DIE

«MUSCLES ARE GREAT»

DEFINITION OF A FREE COUNTRY

«Free countries are great because you can actually sit in somebody else's place for a while and pretend you're a part of it".


-The philosophy of Andy Warhol

POST WARHOL PREDICTION:IN THE FUTURE WOMEN MAGAZINE WILL WRITE:HOW TO MINIMIZE YOUR EXPRESSIONS WRINKLES WHEN FAKING TEARS AT A HOLLYWOOD FUNERAL

«ATHLETES ARE GOING TO BE THE NEW MEDIA STARS»

REACHING THE SATURATION POINT

In its current issue Radar magazine notice that in the last fifteen years the number of paparazzi has increased tenfold. Not suprisingly more and more people are now tuning out from this increasingly 12 year old girl pop culture. Among them Camille Paglia who in her own words lost that evangelical fervor she once had for pop culture in the early 1990's.

NEW RECORD FOR A WARHOL PAINTING

Today at Christie's in New York the 1963 painting Green Car Crash by Andy Warhol was sold for $71.7 million. The painting had previoulsy been in the same private collection for more than 30 years.

«GEE, THAT'S GREAT!»

HOLLYWOOD 101

«The same cute driver. I wish he was a fairy, but he isn't. He's trying to make all the girls. And they all have Barbie doll bodies! You can't believe them. No hips and big tits. He's just divorced and says h's a country boy he lives in the Valley or someplace like that. Jay is his name. The Captain of the Cars. And he sits there and does crossword puzzles all day when he's not driving. And I said «Don't you want to further your career? If you can do puzzles you can direct».

-The Andy Warhol Diaries
March 29 1985

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE WOMEN MAGAZINE WILL WRITE: ARE ALL OLD BORING MEN GAY?

THE BEAUTY OBSESSION

Photo: www.allposters.com

PHILOSOPHY BOOK FOR THE 21 ST CENTURY:

My favorite word now is «personality». But I still don't know what it mean. Can you be a personality without being a TV personality? Or is it like that 100 most beautiful people list? Before you couldn't be famous without being beautiful. Now you can't be beautiful without being famous.

«I NEVER MET AN ANIMAL I DIDN'T LIKE»

EVERYBODY LOVES TRASH CULTURE!

«What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same thing as the poorest».


-The Philosophy of Andy Warhol.

POST WARHOL PREDICTION:IN THE FUTURE FITNESS MAGAZINE WILL WRITE: GET A KITCHEN TABLE BODY BY JUNE!

WARHOL AS WRESTLING FAN

WHO IS SHE?

«One fascinating thing about Hollywood is that it's filled with these petite, fragile beauties in their seventies and eighties that you see at all the premieres and things. You can tell they were once really beautiful because they still have that glamour aura around them, and they still hold themselves together really well. But you can't figure out who they are or what roles they had, or how they live today».

-Andy Warhol
America

POST WARHOL PREDICTION:IN THE FUTURE US VOTERS WILL BE ASKED: WHICH PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO EAT «LOYALTY FRIES» WITH?

«GEE, THAT'S GREAT!»

Jan Van Eyck
Madonna del cancelliere Rolin
1437

PhILOSOPHY BOOK FOR THE 21 ST CENTURY: SARKOZY ELECTED OR WHY THE LEFT SHOULD READ WARHOL MORE

Tonight Nicolas Sarkozy has been elected president of France. In his first speech as president he then said he would rehabilitate work and merit. Since when the left has started believing that work and effort were a right wing idea? They should have read Warhol more: «everybody should work 24/7 or «Keeping busy is the best».

THE HOLLYWOOD FASCINATION

WARHOL & THE COCA-COLA MUSEUM

«In a mingling of Pop art and advertising about 30 Andy Warhol renderings of Coca-Cola's curvy trademark bottles will go on display at a new museum near the headquarters of the world's largest beverage maker. Most of the paintings, pencil sketches and screenprints all about Coke -except for a self portrait will be on exhibit beginning May 24 at the World of Coca-Cola museum in Atlanta».


-The Advocate
May 4 2007

SHOWING OFF FOR FIFTEEN MINUTES OF FAME

A WARHOL QUOTE FOR OUR 21 ST CENTURY CULTURE

«Nowadays if you're a crook you're still considered up there. You can write books, go on TV, give interviews-you're a big celebrity and nobody even looks down on you because you're a crook. You're still really up-there. This is because more than anything people just want stars».

- The Philosophy of Andy Warhol.

THE BEAUTY OBSESSION

WAS HE PREDICTING TODAY?

«One thing I miss is the time when America had big dreams about the future».


-Andy Warhol.

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE PARIS HILTON WILL PUBLISH A BOOK CALLED «FASHION & BEAUTY TIPS FOR JAILED WOMEN»

«GEE, THAT'S GREAT!»

PHILOSOPHY BOOK FOR THE 21 ST CENTURY: THE HAPPINESS QUESTION

Technology is great. But it would be even better if we could take pictures of people passing by and then launch a little invisible camera above their head that would follow them for the next two or three weeks. This way people could see that the model they saw one hour ago at the beach is always fighting with her boyfriend. They would see that this old rich lady who looked so happy when she passed next to them is in fact always drinking at home to forget about her miserable love life and it would be great because they would see that the muscle guy everybody admired at the bar didn't actually have sex since three weeks because he thinks his biceps are one inch too small. It would really contribute to the overall happiness of the population.

«MUSCLES ARE GREAT EVERYBODY SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST ONE THAT THEY CAN SHOW OFF»- ANDY WARHOL

ENJOYING DISASTERS

«I gave Diana Ross a Diamond painting. She was looking at tapes of the concert. Barry Diller came over and I told him the concert was so great and he said «You always like disasters. You like Grease 2 ».


The Andy Warhol Diaries
July 21 1983

«I NEVER MET AN ANIMAL I DIDN'T LIKE»

PHILOSOPHY BOOK FOR THE 21 ST CENTURY: HOW TO ELIMINATE RACISM IN THE NBA

Just read that new study that says NBA referee call fore fowls against black players than white ones. But they also say the reverse is true when the referee is black. They should have only gay referee, so they would call less fowls for the team with the most good -looking players and everybody would always approve of that. Straight guys wouldn't see the bias, gay men would learn the difference between basketball and football and all the players cute babes are dating would automatically be the best scorers of the league. But I still don't know if they should have only male referee or lesbian referee doing the same for women basketball. Maybe the lesbian referee would always call fowls on the most beautiful girl and it would be bad for the sport...

«ATHLETES ARE GOING TO BE THE NEW MEDIA STARS»

Photo: www.livejournal.com

THE ATHLETES SERIES

«Mr Warhol's Athletes Series created in the late seventies is little-known because it was a private commission. The artist was asked by a friend Manhattan socialite Robert Weisman to execute the series. He was said to be paid US$ 80 000. Each of the stars received US $15 000 to let the artists take as many Polaroids of them as he needed to get a suitable image to be silkscreened on the canvas as the basis of the portraits».


-The Daily Telegraph
April 30 2007