Blake Gopnik’s New Bio Of Warhol: A Case For His Enduring Influence

It is hard now to recapture the shock of 1962 when the iterations ofCampbell’s soup went on display at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles (NewYork wasn’t interested). But the cumulative effect of their pristineforms, their tromp l’oeil construction, their obsessive reiteration(there were 32 prints, one for each flavour), luminous banality and,above all, their thereness, was to blast apart everything that wethought – and think – we know about art. – The Guardian