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Andy Warhol (Icons of America)
In a work of great wisdom and insight, art critic and philosopher Arthur Danto delivers a compact, masterful tour of Andy Warhol’s personal, artistic, and philosophical transformations. Danto traces the evolution of the pop artist, including his early reception, relationships with artists such as Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, and the Factory phenomenon. He offers close readings of individual Warhol works, including their social context and philosophical dimensions, key differences with predecessors such as Marcel Duchamp, and parallels with successors like Jeff Koons. Danto brings to bear encyclopedic knowledge of Warhol’s time and shows us Warhol as an endlessly multidimensional figure—artist, political activist, filmmaker, writer, philosopher—who retains permanent residence in our national imagination.
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Danto suggests that “what makes him an American icon is that his subject matter is always something that the ordinary American understands: everything, or nearly everything he made art out of came straight out of the daily lives of very ordinary Americans. . . . The tastes and values of ordinary persons all at once were inseparable from advanced art.”
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Pop: The Genius of Andy Warhol
Book Description
A major reassessment of the most influential and controversial American artist of the second half of the twentieth century
To his critics, he was the cynical magus of a movement that debased high art and reduced it to a commodity. To his admirers, he was the most important artist since Picasso. Indisputably, Andy Warhol redefined what art could be. As the quintessential Pop artist, he razed the barrier between high and low culture, taking as his subject matter comic books, tabloids, Hollywood publicity photos, and supermarket products. Through his films and the exotic milieu of the Factory, he exhibited an unprecedented talent for publicity and outrage, revealing an underworld of speed freaks, transvestites, and glittering, doomed superstars. Beneath the deceptively simple surface of his silk screens, the old hierarchies of art collapsed. Warhol’s x-ray vision exposed the garish, vulgar, and irrepressible new world of 1960s America.
Focusing on that influential decade, Pop disentangles the myths of Warhol–fraught with contradictions–from the man he truly was, and offers a vivid, entertaining, and provocative look at the legendary artist’s personal and artistic evolution during his most productive and innovative years. A detailed, insightful chronicle of his rise, as well as a critical examination of Warhol’s most important works, this ground-breaking book sheds light on a man who remains an icon of the twentieth century. Drawing on brand-new sources–including extensive original interviews and insight from those who knew him best–Pop offers the most dynamic, comprehensive portrait ever written of the man who changed the way we see the world.
Art from Pop: The Genius of Andy Warhol
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| Andy Warhol, Gold Marilyn, 1962. Silkscreen ink on synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 83 1â„4″ × 57″. Gift of Philip Johnson. Museum of Modern Art, New York. © 2009 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/ARS, New York. Digital image © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, New York. | Andy Warhol, Silver Liz, 1963. Synthetic polymer paint and silkscreen ink on canvas, 40″ × 40 1â„2″. Collection of the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh. © 2009 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/ARS, New York. Photo credit: The Andy Warhol Foundation, Inc./Art Resource, New York. | Andy Warhol, “Flowers,†1964. Screenprint printed on white paper. 23″ × 23″. © 2009 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo credit: The Andy Warhol Foundation, Inc./Art Resource, New York. | Bob Dylan’s screen test. © Billy Name/Ovoworks. | Andy in front of Serendipity, 1961. Photo by John Ardoin. Courtesy of Serendipity 3. |
Rosenthal Andy Warhol Empire Paperweight Featuring New York
Andy Warhol’s Empire Collection interprets the pop artist’s black and white photographs of New York landmarks and other major world cities in porcelain and crystal. Named after Warhol’s 1964 film, Empire, the photos come allive in a series of trays, vases, mugs and paperweights. True works of art for collectors of Warhol and everyone looking for unique decorative items.
Rosenthal Andy Warhol Empire Paperweight Featuring London
Andy Warhol’s Empire Collection interprets the pop artist’s black and white photographs of New York landmarks and other major world cities in porcelain and crystal. Named after Warhol’s 1964 film, Empire, the photos come allive in a series of trays, vases, mugs and paperweights. True works of art for collectors of Warhol and everyone looking for unique decorative items.
Rosenthal Andy Warhol 7-Inch Empire Vase
Andy Warhol’s Empire Collection interprets the pop artist’s black and white photographs of New York landmarks and other major world cities in porcelain and crystal. Named after Warhol’s 1964 film, Empire, the photos come allive in a series of trays, vases, mugs and paperweights. True works of art for collectors of Warhol and everyone looking for unique decorative items.
