According to Peter Wollen, author of Raiding the Icebox, what Warhol was looking for needed to express the very opposite of this myth of total individual freedom. ... Warhol also imitated styles of more contemporary artists, even ones in his own time, such as Ben Shahn, Jasper Johns, and Jackson Pollack (Ratcliff 68). ... He was also a leading film maker, author, magazine publisher, music promoter, collector, and cultural critic (Baal-Teshuva 17). ...

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"About 500 years ago modern political thinking began, It's enticing surface was the idea of, 'realism.' Its ruthless center was the idea that with a worthwhile end, one could justify any mean. Its spokesman was Nicolo Machiavelli," (Zinn). Yes, Machiavelli wanted to serve the people. However his mai...

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Rarely do we contemplate how lucky we are to live in a world with health care, technology, automobiles, and other conveniences that are mostly contemporary devices today. ... In the illustrated book "Maus", the author describes his experiences in Auschwitz and how he was able to survive. ...

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