from Johannes Goransson's substack
"[Bob Dylan] reportedly stole an Elvis print from Warhol. This could be viewed like just an opportune theft, but curiously it seems to engage in some form of exchange: You stole my image so I had to take Elvis’s image. Or: you stole my image so I must be Elvis. It could be seen as an art exchange, an economic exchange. But also an act of mimesis." !!! T he Warhol Zone: On Dylan, Warhol and the Iconophilia of the 1960s Johannes Göransson Apr 28 READ IN APP I’ve been reading/writing/thinking about Latin American “neo-avant-gardism” but this has also led me to fall down into a “Warhol/rabbit hole”, thinking a lot about Andy Warhol’s influence and the dynamics of the zone which he seems to have created in the 1960s (tho arguably it lasted at least until the 19870s, when Basquiat and Haring worked their way into it). This zone - anchored at first in “the factory” with its aluminum wrapped walls and constant party of “superstars” and art-making - seems primarily defined b...
