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| | Wired News: The History of Celebrity |
 | | Warhol, the jet-setter, hobnobbed with celebrities Liza Minnelli, Bianca Jagger, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, recording their activities -- and those in his circle of "Warhol superstars" -- in his gossipy journal |
 | | Ultimately, Warhol himself is subject of these portraits in a transparent demonstration of artist as celebrity. |
 | | Without Warhol's Campbell's soup cans, oversized mass-produced portraits, car crash films, and, yes, his hollow Polaroids, the art of sixties would be oddly bereft, for he not only focused on commercialism of the time but embodied it in all its faux glamour and boredom. |
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