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As well as adapting different aspects of the mass-media into his artistic production, Warhol also founded his own film journal called Inter/View in 1969, a monthly publication dedicated to film reviews and interviews with movie stars and directors, fashion, art, music, television, gossip and celebrity night-life.
In this he could indulge himself and his life-long fanantical interest in celebrities and there was perhaps a certain narcissistic element to this publication. Warhol had established a magazine which became prominent on news-stands as the hip equivalent of "LIFE magazine" or "VOQUE, in which he or other chosen celebrities interviewed other celebrities, whose equal status in the field of fame issued some of the most entertaining and enlightening articles ever produced. |
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By this stage Warhol, had achieved the impossible, succeeding on every cultural level and emerging as the embodiement of "cool". To be asked to participate in one of his ventures, quaranteed a certain distinction under the Warholian tag, would have been a compliment to any celebrity. Warhol furthered this pursuit into the world of television. From 1980-82 he developed "Andy Warhol's TV", a series of half-hour video programmes patterned after Inter/View magazine. This was taken up once again from 1985-87, this time entitled "Andy Warhol's Fifteen Minutes which featured celebrities, artists, musicians and designers, with Warhol as host. Warhol had recognised the power of the media in his rise to celebrity. He had now taken over a set of reins in the media world, instantly attaining some of this power. No publicity is bad publicity and Warholian publicity was great publicity. |