Andy Warhol

162 pages; b&w illustrations. "Danto traces the evolution of the pop artist, including his early reception, relationships with artists, and the Factory phenomenon. . offers close readings of individual Warhol works." The author is art critic for The Nation and professor of philosophy at Columbia.

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In a work of great wisdom and insight, art critic and philosopher Arthur Dantodelivers a compact, masterfultour 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 andshows us Warhol as an endlessly multidimensional figure artist, political activist, filmmaker, writer, philosopher who retains permanentresidence in our national imagination.

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."

Product Info

ISBN: 0300135556

ISBN-13: 9780300135558

Publisher: Yale University Press

Year: 2009

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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