Nadia and Barthes and Warhola

I feel like I can't even say, "Death of the Author" by Barthes because it would contradict his entire essay. This essay actually took me back to my first year at the college taking an approaches to lit class. My professor threw two poems at us and said, "One of these is good and one of these is bad." After reading the poems (The authors and titles escape me, It was 3 years ago) I concluded that first one was very open to interpretation whereas the second one was much more specific and personal. The second poem was certainly not easy to relate to and it was also the poem that earned the most merit in my professor's eyes. You could essentially figure out the author without ever being told.


Warhol truly had a way of unifying his life and his work almost completely and at the same time managing to keep himself personally out of a majority of the works. It's interesting to once again encounter one of his more well known quotes, "In the future everybody will be world famous for 15 minutes" because he totally called it. I feel that if Andy were alive today he would fit in perfectly with the advent of reality TV. Sure, he was shrewd and at times stresses this lack of emotion, but I think this technique benefited him as a business man. The lack of emotion is what makes him fascinating. As artists we tend to conduct pieces based on feelings. Feelings and emotions are bursting out of almost every kind of art, but what a concept to create art that tries to make us numb to all emotion. He states, "...Because the more you look at the same exact thing, the more meaning goes away, and better and emptier you feel."