Tag Archives: Andy Warhol

Conversations with a Clown by Michael Welzenbach

Posted on May 29, 2016 by Mark Kerstetter

Conversations with a Clown, published in 1991, is the only novel by art critic Michael Welzanbach who died far too young in 2001. The novel concerns art critic Corry Peters who lives in Washington D.C., has profoundly ambivalent feelings about … Continue reading →

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Kenneth Goldsmith User’s Manual Part 2

Posted on September 28, 2015 by Mark Kerstetter

nobility…. is a violence from within that protects us from a violence without. It is the imagination pressing back against the pressure of reality. —Wallace Stevens, from The Noble Rider and the Sound of Words [page 665 The Library of … Continue reading →

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On Not Bringing His Christmas Stocking Out of Storage

Posted on February 10, 2015 by Mark Kerstetter

(an analogue to John Ashbery’s On His Reluctance to Take Down the Christmas Ornaments and a response to Matthew Buckley Smith’s charge that the poem doesn’t make any sense) Can you feel a sense of it A package unopened An … Continue reading →

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Impressions of Warhol

Posted on September 18, 2013 by Mark Kerstetter

People are always calling me a mirror and if a mirror looks into a mirror, what is there to see?—Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol There are artists we come to early in life, embrace right away and absorb … Continue reading →

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