Something One Recognizes Yet Can't See: Andy Warhol in and as Media

Abstract

and historians who have sought to take Warhol's popular impact seriously. 4 To do so, it is instructive to compare Warhol's appearance within two widely disseminated products of mainstream commercial culture: the third episode of the ninth season of the popular middlebrow television program The Love Boat, broadcast on the ABC television network on October 12, 1985, and the Academy Award-winning motion picture Klute, released in late June 1971. An examination of the different functions Warhol served within these two mass-media products will, in turn, open onto certain of the theoretical stakes pertaining to Warhol's engagement with media technologies.