Reddit reviews The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)

Probably about a million, but I don't have any really good ones on hand at the moment, but it's worth looking into. The guy was pretty out there, but (maybe not surprisingly) had (IMO) a very dark view of american consumerism that he expressed in a very ironic way.

Excerpt: https://kottke.org/10/10/andy-warhol-on-coca-cola

Discussion of above: https://www.phaidon.com/agenda/art/articles/2019/january/31/what-andy-warhol-really-thought-about-coca-cola/

From the horse's mouth: https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0156717204/ref=nosim/0sil8

You gotta think about it. Wait, is it really so great that we all drink the same coca-cola? Huh? Consider that at the time, soviet conformity was a source of great fear for Americans. What does it really mean that even the president can't get a "better" coca-cola... makes ya think. That is what is good about Warhol. His prints are what they are, the philosophy behind them is the actually interesting part. The art itself is worth a lot mainly because he was the first person to come out and do that sort of thing.

Here's the actual quote:

> What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it.

It's from his book: https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0156717204/ref=nosim/0sil8

Not relevant to the posted topic, but still one of my favorite books, [The Philosophy of Andy Warhol] (http://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Andy-Warhol-From-Again/dp/0156717204)