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Is Andy Warhol Marianne Moore? Celebrity, Celibacy and Subversion

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At first blush, Moore and Warhol associate to different realms in 1950s New York. But these two emigrants from the Pennsylvania interior (1918 and 1949, respectively), both active transformers of the art world and of gender and sex norms, resonate. This essay explores the anomalous similarity of their personal lives (both lifelong bachelors lived with their mothers for decades in New York and created their own iconic personae), and the linked evolution of their meaning-making in the postwar scene (both produced art that explores celebrity culture from within and critiques high/low hierarchies). Their joint appearance in the December 1954 issue of Vogue provides the point of departure into a reading of Moore’s poem “Rosemary.”

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  1. University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA

    Elizabeth Gregory

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  1. Department of English, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA

    Elizabeth Gregory

  2. Department of English, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, New York, USA

    Stacy Carson Hubbard

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Gregory, E. (2018). Is Andy Warhol Marianne Moore? Celebrity, Celibacy and Subversion. In: Gregory, E., Hubbard, S. (eds) Twenty-First Century Marianne Moore. Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65109-5_14

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