ABSTRACT
The strength of Warhol's work in this vein was described by, among others, Thierry de Duve as an illumination that art, in the period of late capital, can offer no critique. For Danto the Brillo Box in its almost exact replication of the real object becomes pure philosophy, which Hegel had already set as the goal of art, for art to become pure Spirit. In contrast, the Death and Disaster series, of which the Jackie works are considered a part, need to be carefully examined in regard to setting Warhol in post-ideological, late capital. As Jacques Derrida and Walter Benjamin, have noted, the state's monopoly on violence is a breach of the smooth running of neutral, well-ordered bureaucracy. These images of state violence and control though offer a small gap in the edifice of bureaucratic control where we may see still working the mythical sovereign authority.
