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Hello Internet! Are you ready to rock? If you happen to be thinking that Monday morning at a. Andy Warhol designed cover for Sticky Fingers A funny thing happened after Exile on Main St. The manner in which this happened owes a lot to their encounter with Andy Warhol. But the influence on them of the Andy aesthetic has gotten far less attention, at gay in pop grape criticism the Warhol Museum mounted a show, Starfucker: Andy Warhol and the Rolling Stonesingilded of great stuff.

The gain for the Stones was exponential: a new the for a new decade and indeed a new town. They later quipped that they were used to doing a lot more than that for fifty bucks. As was his practice at the time, Warhol transferred these images to silkscreen for mechanical reproduction, over or under which he painted in unusually expressive fashion, at times applying collages of torn paper as well.

What is certain is that Warhol at this same moment was giving Polaroids he had taken of Jagger in Montauk the exact treatment he gives the drag queens in Ladies and Gentlemen. Being a drag queen is really hard work, Warhol famously wrote in The Philosophy of Andy Warholand it is in part the connections between hard work, its celebrity remuneration, drag, and prostitution that link the Ladies and Gentlemen series with the portraits—paintings and then prints—of Jagger.

These connections link this output with Warhol himself, making the portraits a sort of displaced self-portraiture. Their mechanics, if you will, seem homologous with drag, in fact. According to a scheme worked out by Warhol and Jagger, the latter signed the portraits so that they could promote both artists. Not a bad definition of the Warholian image, this, and in the s, as the Rolling Stones entered their club decade of performance and stardom, Jagger took the lesson and ran with it.

And this under the sign of Warhol, I think, which is to say, with a queerly knowing intimacy informed by a sense of the artist-star as a hustler for money in what we might call image-drag. He has written and lectured widely on the politics of U. He is currently finishing a study of race and culture in the twentieth century entitled Tangled Up in Blue: The Cultural Contradictions of American Racism.

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