According to this article in the Guardian, Andy Warhol may have been autistic. The theory seems plausible, but does it in any way effect our appreciation of Warhol? I don’t think so. His admiration for all things plastic, that is, artistic, is echoed in Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, and yet no one is studying the Irishman’s pathology! In my opinion, Warhol was the greatest performance artist in history; his art and personality were the same thing. Moreover, Warhol’s aesthetic methods oddly resemble Benjamin’s model for proletarian art in “The Work of in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.”
Anyway, whatever; the important thing is to live and create.
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