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May 21, 2010
Paul Morrisey makes a few points when
talking about the old Factory days: On the commentary disk
with Paul Morrisey's
(1) Warhol hired Paul Morrisey, and Andy Warhol's "Flesh".
put his own name on things, but wasn't
really doing all that much.
(2) The Factory wasn't actually
a hang-out, but rather a place My understanding was that
where they staged photoshoots the old Silver Factory Funny Paul
for scheduled visitors. was more of an authentic Morrisey
gathering place. doesn't
(3) The entire goal of the dis-
game was to do what they tinguish.
actually achieved: promote We might guess that Paul
Warhol's name, and sell Morrisey is exaggerating
screen prints at ever his own role and
increasing prices (and downplaying others...
without paying gallery
commissions). You might get
the impression Really, Paul
that Warhol was Morrisey joined The
a nobody until Factory in 1965,
Paul Morrisey when Warhol's silver
put him over. star was already
rising. After the
Soup can paintings,
after the Marilyn
silkscreens, after
Much of what Paul the movies "Sleep"
Morrisey says has and "Beauty
a ring of truth No. 2"...
about it.
His portrait of (In later days, Warhol didn't bother
Warhol as this to do his own silk-screening... he
weirdly hung-up phoned in orders and signed the results.)
character who did
very little
artistically and yet I've often thought he
became famous... was an example of an Though
that doesn't sound idiot savant: he could there's
too far off. do interesting things another view
despite not really being that this was
Paul Morrisey is very bright. schtick, a
dismissive of Warhol's defense
self-conscious schtick in But consider the mechanism.
some of the photographs, portrait of Warhol
e.g. meeting a European by Reed and Cale on If you refuse
photgrapher with a large "Songs for Drella": to defend
dildo peeping out of his a more respectful yourself, if
jacket pocket. view of a driving you just
force that insisted admit to
But this schtick on discipline. anything
works much in the you're
way Paul Morrisey's accused of,
movies work, because Paul Morrisey's you undermine
it's so deadpan, so story is a the momentum
unconcerned. little sketchy of the
concerning attack.
In the land of the Cool, people such as
the autistic man is king. Lou Reed.
DRY_FLESH
Did the Velvet
Underground
break-up mostly
because Reed was
jealous of Nico?
That one does not
quite take the
ring...
WARHOL
Paul Morrisey did organize the
Exploding Plastic Inevitable,
and he brought Nico into the
Velvet Underground.
He was involved with
the founding of the
proto-punk band...
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