Consuming Cambells Soup after Warhol 2006 - Performance work in progress series 365 5 x 4 signed photogaphs of artist at work on soup. POA

"What the artist's mere signature does is transform the soup can into a sort of word, totally inexplicit, totally assertive, inexplicably permanent.
A word comes from a person, who intends it.
A soup can is a soup can, in a different and less accessible universe."

"Warhol, who began by imitating soup labels with consummate skill, apparently contemplated a progress from painting to sculpture, in emulation of his colleague Jasper Johns, who had turned out a Ballantine's beer can in solid bronze. This artifact, for which a large price was immediately paid, differs from its original, within the limits of the artist's skill, in only two particulars: it is much heavier, and it contains no beer.

But Warhol cast no bronze for it suddenly appeared that the Campbell Company, which up to that time had let us think that its business was to feed its customers and its stockholders, was actually engaged in a massive counterfeiting operation. It was flooding the supermarkets with cheap imitations of an Andy Warhol sculpture, and before the sculptor had so much as gotten to work."
HUGH KENNER. "The Counterfeiters' first appeared in the Winter, 1966 issue of The Virginia Quarterly Review.