What Warhol does here is something similar to Michael Snow but for the purpose of achieving an entirely different goal.
It’s sort of fascinating that it manages to differentiate itself from Michael Snow’s works considering they are so stylistically similar yet the different intentions are so clearly felt. The film takes a very set in stone piece of iconography and changes it through the Camera creating something new in the synthesis.
Andy Warhol is reshaping an iconic image that being the velvet underground into this sort of distorted representation. This is different from Michael Snow, who primarily was analyzing the mechanisms and effects of the camera itself with the subject being a sort of secondary quality. Instead the reverse is true here. the velvet underground is the primary and the camera is secondary creating a film that while stylistically looks very similar to what Michael Snow was doing is in its entirely own lane.
Its goal is to literally and metaphorically warp the image of the velvet underground. Michael Snow and Warhol are using the same tools in a philosophical sense, but those tools are used to sculpt two definitively different statues.
This just goes to show that The question of method and the question of goal must be answered separately.
What Warhol does here is something similar to Michael Snow but for the purpose of achieving an entirely different goal.
It’s sort of fascinating that it manages to differentiate itself from Michael Snow’s works considering they are so stylistically similar yet the different intentions are so clearly felt. The film takes a very set in stone piece of iconography and changes it through the Camera creating something new in the synthesis.
Andy Warhol is reshaping an iconic image that being the velvet underground into this sort of distorted representation. This is different from Michael Snow, who primarily was analyzing the mechanisms and effects of the camera itself with the subject being a sort of secondary quality. Instead the reverse is true here. the velvet underground is the primary and the camera is secondary creating a film that while stylistically looks very similar to what Michael Snow was doing is in its entirely own lane.
Its goal is to literally and metaphorically warp the image of the velvet underground. Michael Snow and Warhol are using the same tools in a philosophical sense, but those tools are used to sculpt two definitively different statues.
This just goes to show that The question of method and the question of goal must be answered separately.
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