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Warhol Made the Atom Bomb

August 10, 2010 by Marion Maneker

Adam Lindemann has many smart things to say about the late Warhol show at the Brooklyn Museum. But nothing in his New York Observer piece approaches the insight of this sentence:

If Marcel Duchamp was the art world’s Einstein, Warhol used his formula to make the bomb, and changed the art world forever.

The 80s, Through Warhol’s Eyes (New York Observer)

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