Book WARHOL
Book WARHOL
Andy Warhol is a major figure in the pop art movement. As a creative and critical observer of American society, he was able to find the right keys to such topical issues as consumption, materialism, the media and celebrities. He made commercials, prints, consumer goods, portrayed the most famous faces of Hollywood, and thus comics contributed to a radical reassessment of what is and is not a work of art. Thanks to Warhol, a can of Campbell's soup and a bottle of Coca-Cola became objects with the same artistic value as objects on a classic still life. At the same time, Warhol radically changed the role of the artist himself: with his famous phrase "I want to be a machine", he expressed contempt for the concept of authorship. He worked using mass production methods, had dozens of assistants and liked to call his studio a factory. This book provides an insight into Warhol's vast and colorful work, which has brought themes such as housing, production, and consumption into art, thus completely rethinking the concept of "high" and "low" art.
Format: 210 x 260 mm
Pages: 96
Language: English
Publisher: TASCHEN
Product code: 837142
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Andy Warhol is a major figure in the pop art movement. As a creative and critical observer of American society, he was able to find the right keys to such topical issues as consumption, materialism, the media and celebrities. He made commercials, prints, consumer goods, portrayed the most famous faces of Hollywood, and thus comics contributed to a radical reassessment of what is and is not a work of art. Thanks to Warhol, a can of Campbell's soup and a bottle of Coca-Cola became objects with the same artistic value as objects on a classic still life. At the same time, Warhol radically changed the role of the artist himself: with his famous phrase "I want to be a machine", he expressed contempt for the concept of authorship. He worked using mass production methods, had dozens of assistants and liked to call his studio a factory. This book provides an insight into Warhol's vast and colorful work, which has brought themes such as housing, production, and consumption into art, thus completely rethinking the concept of "high" and "low" art.
Format: 210 x 260 mm
Pages: 96
Language: English
Publisher: TASCHEN
Product code: 837142
