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Andy Warhol Retrospective

Door Heiner Bastian

Categorie
Algemeen Kunst
Boeknummer
#331240-KJ24
Titel
Andy Warhol Retrospective
Auteur
Bastian, Heiner
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
London : Tate Publishing
Jaar van uitgave
2001
ISBN10
1854374109
ISBN13
9781854374103
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, illustrated with numerous colour and b/w photographs and illustrations, 4to.
Samenvatting
This volume is published to accompany a major European retrospective of the work of Andy Warhol, presenting him as the most significant chronicler of the second half of the 20th century. The collection of over 220 images show how his work reflected and commented on themes in American society that were also becoming international: consumerism, mass-production, celebrity, death and disaster. In the four essays Warhol scholars propose new ways of approaching the art of this enigmatic figure. Heiner Bastian, drawing on his friendship with Warhol, traces his development from commercial graphic artist to purely autonomous artist with international status. He extends the concept of Classic Modernism to almost the end of the 20th century and shows Warhol to be a deeply moral artist. Kirk Varnedoe ... (Lees verder)examines the significance of Warhol's first exhibition of 1962 of the series of "Campbells Soup Cans", exploring the themes of the multiple. Donna De Salvo takes the concept of the "afterimage" in Warhol's work as a starting point for considering his painterly strategy. She shows how Warhol had a very subtle awareness of the surface in contemporary culture, tracing this back to his work for advertising agencies. Peter-Claus Schuster makes a resonant comparison between the work of Warhol and Goya, both depicted atrocity. Warhol's " Death and Disaster" sequences can be seen not as depictions of a callous, unjust society, but rather as a critique of the media message and the resulting desensitization of public consciousness. Ultimately, however, he warns against any simplistic reductions and poposes Andy Warhol to be a complex mixture of victim, superstar and redeemer.
Pagina's
319
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 20,00

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