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Ghosts in the Machine: Warhol and the American Mythos
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This Artsy Exclusive Online Exhibition, “Ghosts in the Machine: Warhol and the American Mythos,” explores the clash between America’s mythologized past and its commodified present. Through Warhol’s icons—cowboys, saints, celebrities, and dollar signs—the exhibition reveals how history is compiled, reproduced, and consumed, often into oblivion. In Warhol’s hands, memory becomes product, and progress swallows its ghosts whole.
Title: Ghosts in the Machine: Warhol and the American Mythos
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This Artsy Exclusive Online Exhibition, “Ghosts in the Machine: Warhol and the American Mythos,” explores the clash between America’s mythologized past and its commodified present.
Through Warhol’s icons—cowboys, saints, celebrities, and dollar signs—the exhibition reveals how history is compiled, reproduced, and consumed, often into oblivion.
In Warhol’s hands, memory becomes product, and progress swallows its ghosts whole.
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