The cinema of indifference
Andy Warhol’s first films
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Andy Warhol, Indifference, Noncomposition, Experimental FilmAbstract
This paper intends to develop a genealogy of the gesture of indifference that constitutes Andy Warhol’s silent films made between 1963 and 1965. The hypothesis of this work is that his attitude of cinematic indifference develops from his former work as a painter, when he sought to get rid of a compositional and expressive understanding of painting, finding models for an art of indifference in the figures of Marcel Duchamp and John Cage. Finally, this paper argues for the importance of Warhol’s first films in breaking with the compositional paradigm of Avant-garde cinema.
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