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THE COUNTERFEITERS 

HUGH KENNER. "The Counterfeiters' first appeared in the Winter, 1966 issue of The Virginia Quarterly Review.

"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."

"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."

AESTHETIC PARADOXES 

FANCHON FROHLICH "Aesthetic Paradoxes of Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art," British Journal of Aesthetics, vol. 6, pp. 17, 25, 1966. 

"This paper has been a sketch of the limits of the impossible. Since most contemporary avant garde art exists in this region, near or at the limit of the impossible, it is filled with paradoxes, which are sometimes destructive, sometimes animating, sometimes both at the same time. Indeed it is probably in the latter way, as simultaneously self-destructive and life giving that the paradoxes within contemporary art function to keep it perpetually new."

Joseph Kosuth: Art as Idea as Idea.
This interview was broadcast on WBAI on April 7, 1970. Kosuth, then twenty-five years old, had already caused quite a stir as the conceptual artist. 

"Well, for one thing, in the idea of the unassisted Readymades, there is a shift in our conception of art from one of "What does it look like?" to a question of function, or "How does an object work as art?" which brings into question the whole framing device of context ...." 

I'm sorry but l'm afraid I'm going to have to interrupt you in the middle of Marcel Duchamp because we're running out of time."
"I'm sure he wouldn't have minded anyway." 

The Artists' Protest against the Museum of Modern Art.
The sculptor Takis and some of his friends removed his Telesculpture, 1960, from the Machine Show at the Museum of Modern Art.

 They took this action because the work was exhibited against the artist's express consent.

 On January 28, 1969, the group presented to the director of the Museum of Modern Art, Bates Lowry, a list of thirteen demands, the first of which was that the Museum should hold a public hearing in February on the topic, "The Museum's relationship to artists and to society."

An Interview with James Rosenquist.

 A major Retrospective of James Rosenquist's work opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art in April 1972.

 Rosenquist, although always included in the category of Pop, was, as this interview demonstrates, something of a maverick.
His interiorized vision and use of Surrealist stylistic devices have made him interesting to younger figurative artists.

 The interview also illuminates Rosenquist's strength as a sculptor, which had been overlooked.
His attitude towards political events elucidated in his discussion of F-Ill (1965), is important.
The specter of aggression and the pre-emption of nature by technology, issues inherent to F-Ill, have continued to absorb Rosenquist to the present time. 

Louise Bourgeois' defi

 Louise Bourgeois has always been considered an outsider, an artist whose aesthetic postulates have not fallen conveniently into any set tendency or style. 

It does not surprise us, then, to read that in an article written by Belle Krasne in 1954, Bourgeois was already classified as an artist at the margin, that is, an artist who persists in exploring a personal path lying beyond the movements of Modern Art.