A good friend of mine aptly defines pollution as too much of something in a space that can't handle it any more. Almost anything can become a pollutant, even art.

And even I, being a highly visual person, have to admit to overload, especially in shopping malls. Albright's comment through his character B.S. Sneer seems appropriate, " All this about participation is B.S.. You can participate in art more fully by looking at one great work than by turning out a million mediocre paintings or performance pieces." (151)

"Warhol-style Campbell's soup designs now appear on wastebaskets and water tumblers at the five-and-dime... Like most satire that is scarcely distinguishable from the object satirized, Warhol's work has itself turned into an assembly-line-style commodity, a spoof to the second power that retains only the humour of a private joke, all the way to the bank. The repetitious serial images that once seemed such a mordant commentary on the monotonous surfeit of American conformity now produce only a monotonous surfeit of Andy Warhol." (152)
Thomas Albright

151. Thomas Albright, On Art and Artists, (U.S.A., The Chronicle Publishing Co., 1989), p.199
152. ibid., p. 115