I hear you, except the mundane “object” that inspired Lichtenstein was itself a work of art, while the soup can was an actual object. Warhol did elevate the soup can by his reproduction of it. Put it in a frame and now you can think all kinds of things about it – the beautiful industrial design of the can, the consumer culture that created it, etc. But it doesn’t work the same with another artist’s work, especially when that original artist goes uncredited, unacknowledged, still largely unknown to this day.
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