Article: Minneapolis museum exhibits rare Warhol drawings

Laura Czarnecki
University Wire
08-10-1999
(Minnesota Daily) (U-WIRE) MINNEAPOLIS -- "Some company recently was interested in buying my "aura." They didn't want my product. They kept saying, "We want your aura." I never figured out what they wanted. But they were willing to pay a lot for it. So then I thought that if somebody was willing to pay that much for it, I should try to figure out what it is" - Andy Warhol, 1975.

If aura makes an object irreplaceable in the world of objects, then the technologies of repetition like the copy machine, printing press and tape recorder shatter that object's claim on uniqueness. For instance, after viewing so many screen prints of Marilyn Monroe or ...

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