Article: Quote-real-unquote: MOCA's Warhol show converts quantity into quality. (Art).(Andy Warhol retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art; New York)

IN 1967 THE AMERICAN PROGRAM Bureau asked Andy Warhol to consider a cross-country college lecture tour. By then the artist had become widely known for his paintings of Campbell's soup cans and unedited films like Sleep, in which poet John Giorno snoozes for eight hours. Warhol craved attention, but he balked at the public exposure a tour would entail; although he hid his baldness beneath a flamboyant silver wig, he was painfully self-conscious about his pale, pockmarked complexion and florid nose, the result of a childhood bout of Saint Vitus' dance. He'd cultivated a robotic persona to match his repetitive images of Coke bottles, movie stars, and dollar bills, and he ...

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