(1928 – 1987) Ensconced during the 1960s in the subcultural scene of his New York studio, “The Factory” Andy Warhol transposed and transcended the defining ethos of his industrial Pittsburgh origins. In his silkscreen icons of American consumer culture and its celebrities, from Campbell’s Soup and Coca-Cola to Marilyn Monroe and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Warhol turned mass culture into high art. As such, his work was the pop art avatar of postmodernism, fundamentally blurring and destabilizing the boundary between “avant-garde and kitsch” that had been so rigorously maintained in high modernist criticism and practice.