Paul Morrisey's "Flesh": Seeing through the Eyes of Warhol's America Art Histories

Melanie Ross explores how Paul Morrissey's film "Flesh," used the visual vocabulary of Andy Warhol to advocate for conservative morals and foreshadowed a shifting attitude of public values. Morrissey changed Warholʼs filmmaking techniques from a self-reflexive avant-guard mode to a commercial approach. The film was released in
1968, the cataclysmic year of the counterculture rebellion.