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Article: From B to B on A again. (opinions on Andy Warhol)
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- Artforum International
- Article date:
- September 1, 1994
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HAVING DRAWN NEARLY his last breath, Pennsylvania native W. C. Fields looked th Grim Reaper in the eye and quipped the transcendent epitaph, "On the whole, I'd rather be in Philadelphia." On the occasion of the recent opening of the Andy Warhol Museum in the artist's hometown, we pepped the question: given the option, would Andy rather be in Pittsburgh?
ARTHUR C. DANTO (philosopher/art critic): It was a witty thing that W. C. Field wanted on his tombstone: Philadelphia as an alternative to death. It makes me think of the point in the Odyssey when Achilles met Odysseus in the underworld and said, "I would rather be a slave among the living than the king of spirits in ...
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