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Article: Warhol's women (one in particular).(Andy Warhol, Valerie Solanas, Sex Objects: Art and the Dialectics of Desire)(Excerpt)
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- The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
- Article date:
- May 1, 2006
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The following is an edited excerpt from the recently published Sex Objects: Art and the Dialectics of Desire (University of Minnesota Press).
THE JUNE, 1968, afternoon on which Valerie Solanas shot up Andy Warhol's studio has been taken as the defining moment in the relationship between feminism and Pop Art. Until that day, Solanas had been a minor but recognizable figure in the Greenwich Village scene, known chiefly for selling her infamous SCUM Manifesto (SCUM = Society for Cutting Up Men) on the streets.* By the time her movements in New York took her to Warhol's Factory, she had already achieved notoriety, having been interviewed by the Village Voice as the ...