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Binding: Hardcover
Description: Andy Warhol (1928 1987) is hailed as the most important proponent of the Pop art movement. A critical and creative observer of American society he explored key themes of consumerism materialism media and celebrity. Drawing on contemporary advertisements comic strips consumer products and Hollywood's most famous faces Warhol proposed a radical reevaluation of what constituted artistic subject matter. Through Warhol a Campbell's soup can and Coca Cola bottle became as worthy of artistic status as any traditional still life. At the same time Warhol reconfigured the role of the artist. Famously stating I want to be a machine he systematically reduced the presence of his own authorship working with mass - production methods and images as well as dozens of assistants in a studio he dubbed the Factory. This book introduces Warhol's multifaceted prolific oeuvre which revolutionized distinctions between high and low art and integrated ideas of living producing and consuming that remain central questions of modern experience.
Title: Warhol
Author(s): Honnef Klaus
Publisher: Taschen Gmbh
Barcode: 9783836543897
Pages: 96 Pages
Publication Date: 9/9/2015
Series: Basic Art
Category: Individual Artists, Art Monographs
Description: Andy Warhol (1928 1987) is hailed as the most important proponent of the Pop art movement. A critical and creative observer of American society he explored key themes of consumerism materialism media and celebrity. Drawing on contemporary advertisements comic strips consumer products and Hollywood's most famous faces Warhol proposed a radical reevaluation of what constituted artistic subject matter. Through Warhol a Campbell's soup can and Coca Cola bottle became as worthy of artistic status as any traditional still life. At the same time Warhol reconfigured the role of the artist. Famously stating I want to be a machine he systematically reduced the presence of his own authorship working with mass - production methods and images as well as dozens of assistants in a studio he dubbed the Factory. This book introduces Warhol's multifaceted prolific oeuvre which revolutionized distinctions between high and low art and integrated ideas of living producing and consuming that remain central questions of modern experience.
Title: Warhol
Author(s): Honnef Klaus
Publisher: Taschen Gmbh
Barcode: 9783836543897
Pages: 96 Pages
Publication Date: 9/9/2015
Series: Basic Art
Category: Individual Artists, Art Monographs