15 minutes of fame

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15 minutes of fame ("15 minutes of fame") is an expression coined by the American artist Andy Warhol . It refers to the fleetingness of fame and media attention that quickly becomes distracted to focus on another object once the viewer's attention span is exhausted. The term is particularly popular in the entertainment industry and pop culture .

origin

The expression is a paraphrase of a statement by Warhol from 1968:

"In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes."

"In the future everyone will be world famous for 15 minutes."

- Warhol photo exhibition, Stockholm, 1968: Kaplan, Justin (ed.), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 16th edition, 1992 (Little, Brown & Co.), pp. 758: 17

In 1979 Warhol renewed his claim:

"... my prediction from the sixties finally came true: In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes."

"... my prediction from the sixties finally came true: in the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes."

- Warhol photo exhibition, Stockholm, 1968: Kaplan, Justin (ed.), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 16th edition, 1992 (Little, Brown & Co.), pp. 758: 17

Bored by the constant inquiries about this statement, Warhol began to deliberately vary the statement in interviews:

"In the future 15 people will be famous"

"In the future 15 people will be famous"

- Looking For Fame In All the Wrong Places , by Candace Murphy, published in the Chicago Tribune on August 25, 2006

Warhol's remark and insight grew out of Warhol's own interest in fame and notoriety. In his opinion, the media should make it possible for everyone to become famous. Warhol's changing entourage in the 1960s and 1970s of otherwise unknown free-riders whom he called his " superstars " was an example of the ephemerality and transience of fame. The “superstars” included Susan Bottomly , Brigid Berlin , Joe Dallesandro and Mary Woronov . From 1985 to 1987, the American music broadcaster MTV broadcast the talk show Andy Warhol's Fifteen Minutes , hosted by Warhol .

In popular culture

The age of reality TV brought about an ironic re-creation of the saying that every 15 minutes - no longer - can be seen. Probably triggered by the emergence of social networks , blogs and other Internet phenomena, the saying was also used in “In the future, everyone will be famous to fifteen people” (alternative: “On the web, everyone will be famous to fifteen people” ) modified. The latter statement is attributed to the Scottish artist Momus .

The American director John Herzfeld created the action film 15 Minutes of Fame in 2001 with Robert De Niro and Edward Burns in the leading roles. The film is about the pursuit of fame and its short-lived nature. In the 1997 horror film Scream 2 , the character Cotton Weary, an alleged murderer and played by actor Liev Schreiber , uses the Warhol quote. Thomas D also processed this topic in the song 15 Min. Of Fame . There is also a title by Karl Bartos called 15 Minutes of Fame .

The British artist Banksy created a sculpture out of television sets, which carries the inscription "In the future, everyone will be anonymous for 15 minutes" on the screens.

Web links

Wikiquote: Andy Warhol  - Quotes
Commons : Andy Warhol  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Internet site with episode list ( memento from January 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on June 25, 2009
  2. ^ Peltz, Jennifer: Aiken and Clarkson show off Idol mettle . March 1, 2004. Archived from the original on February 20, 2012. Retrieved on May 27, 2008.
  3. ^ Weinberger, D: Famous to fifteen people . July 23, 2005. Retrieved December 21, 2006.
  4. ↑ Momus: POP STARS? NO THANKS! In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen people… . Grimsby Fishmarket. 1991. Retrieved October 7, 2008.
  5. ↑ Background to the film title