WARHOL'S WORK IN THE 1950'S

«Warhol mercilessly debunked Modernist protocols. Whilst his homosexuality was not widely acknowledged until after his death, he blithely used the related sensibility of Camp as his main weapon. Defined by Susan Sontag in a famous essay of 1964 as «love of the unatural; of artifice and exaggeration, a good taste of bad taste» it had permeated Warhol's earlier output as a succesful illustrator in the 1950's»

David Hopkins
After Modern Art
Oxford history of art.