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Warhol

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Zusatztext "Highly readable...certainly for those fascinated with Warhol, but equally for those seeking an in-depth yet accessible introduction to the artist." Informationen zum Autor   Blake Gopnik , one of North America’s leading art critics, is the author of the comprehensive biography  Warhol . He has served as the art and design critic at  Newsweek , and as the chief art critic at the  Washington Post  and Canada’s the  Globe and Mail . In 2017, he was a Cullman Center fellow in residence at the New York Public Library, and in 2015 he held a fellowship at the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the City University of New York. He has a PhD in art history from Oxford University and is a regular contributor to the  New York Times . Klappentext The definitive biography of a fascinating and paradoxical figure, one of the most influential artists of his?or any?age To this day, mention the name ?Andy Warhol? to almost anyone and you'll hear about his famous images of soup cans and Marilyn Monroe. But though Pop Art became synonymous with Warhol's name and dominated the public's image of him, his life and work are infinitely more complex and multi-faceted than that. In Warhol, esteemed art critic Blake Gopnik takes on Andy Warhol in all his depth and dimensions. ?The meanings of his art depend on the way he lived and who he was,? as Gopnik writes. ?That's why the details of his biography matter more than for almost any cultural figure,? from his working-class Pittsburgh upbringing as the child of immigrants to his early career in commercial art to his total immersion in the ?performance? of being an artist, accompanied by global fame and stardom?and his attempted assassination. The extent and range of Warhol's success, and his deliberate attempts to thwart his biographers, means that it hasn't been easy to put together an accurate or complete image of him. But in this biography, unprecedented in its scope and detail as well as in its access to Warhol's archives, Gopnik brings to life a figure who continues to fascinate because of his contradictions?he was known as sweet and caring to his loved ones but also a coldhearted manipulator; a deep-thinking avant-gardist but also a true lover of schlock and kitsch; a faithful churchgoer but also an eager sinner, skeptic, and cynic. Wide-ranging and immersive, Warhol gives us the most robust and intricate picture to date of a man and an artist who consistently defied easy categorization and whose life and work continue to profoundly affect our culture and society today. Zusammenfassung The definitive biography of a fascinating and paradoxical figure, one of the most influential artists of his—or any—age   To this day, mention the name “Andy Warhol” to almost anyone and you’ll hear about his famous images of soup cans and Marilyn Monroe. But though Pop Art became synonymous with Warhol’s name and dominated the public’s image of him, his life and work are infinitely more complex and multi-faceted than that.  In Warhol , esteemed art critic Blake Gopnik takes on Andy Warhol in all his depth and dimensions. “The meanings of his art depend on the way he lived and who he was,” as Gopnik writes. “That’s why the details of his biography matter more than for almost any cultural figure,” from his working-class Pittsburgh upbringing as the child of immigrants to his early career in commercial art to his total immersion in the “performance” of being an artist, accompanied by global fame and stardom—and his attempted assassination.   The extent and range of Warhol’s success, and his deliberate attempts to thwart his biographers, means that it hasn’t been easy to put together an accurate or complete image of him. But in this biography, unprecedented in its scope and detail as well as in its access to Warhol’s arc...

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Authors Blake Gopnik
Publisher Ecco Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 30.04.2021
 
EAN 9780062298423
ISBN 978-0-06-229842-3
No. of pages 976
Dimensions 155 mm x 235 mm x 44 mm
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries

HISTORY: 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Entertainment & Performing Arts, ART: Women Artists, HISTORY: Women, HISTORY: Modern / General, ART: General, ART: ART HISTORY, ART: American / General

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