False pleasure False pleasure False pleasure may be a pleasure based on a false belief (as of supposedly having come into money), or a pleasure compared with more real, or greater pleasures. Lacan maintained that philosophers should seek to "discern not true pleasures from false, for such a distinction is impossible to make, but the true and false goods that pleasure points to". Plato devoted much attention to the belief that "no pleasure save that of the wise is quite true and pure - all others are shadows only" - both in The Republic and in his late dialogue Philebus. Augustine saw
Campbell's Soup Cans be visiting Warhol in May 1962, at a time when Warhol was being featured in a May 11, 1962 "Time" magazine article "The Slice-of-Cake School" (that included a portion of Warhol's silkscreened "200 One Dollar Bills"), along with Lichtenstein, Rosenquist, and Wayne Thiebaud. Warhol was the only artist whose photograph actually appeared in the article, which is indicative of his knack for manipulating the mass media. Blum saw dozens of Campbell's Soup can variations, including a grid of "One-Hundred Soup Cans" that day. Blum was shocked that Warhol had no gallery arrangement and offered him a July show at the