
Pop Life: Outsider Artists and the 'Pop Idea'" looks at the way Andy Warhol's art and life not only influenced the way we see art, but the way we see artists, and in doing so helped pave the way for the concept and celebration of artists normally not a part of a monolithic "art-world." While Warhol relished the experience of artistic fame as a never-ending evening at Studio 54 (as witnessed in his diaries from the late 70s and early 80s), he also has a strong streak of egalitarianism running through his work and through his writings. Warhol writes in his manifesto, Popism: the Warhol Sixties: "The Pop idea, after all, was that anybody could do anything.
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