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Was the Andy Warhol that Warhol himself so carefully crafted the real Andy Warhol? Art historian Jonathan Katz, of City College of San Francisco, suggests that there was much more of an actively engaged cultural critic inside Warhol's famous blank, expressionless persona than has been widely recognized. The author explores the connections between such cultural dissimulation and the problems and pain associated with gay identity in the 1950s and 1960s.