Like a Little Dog - Andy Warhol''s Queer Ecologies

"A stunning model of non-anthropocentric art history, Anthony Grudin’s deeply empathetic and humane book explores intersections of animality, corporeality, and sexuality in Andy Warhol’s life and art, including his actual and psychic involvements with nonhuman animals and their erotic lives and ecologies. It will reorient thinking about the texture of Warhol’s imaginative achievements."—Whitney Davis, Pardee Professor of History and Theory of Ancient and Modern Art, University of California at Berkeley

"How can it be that we had to wait until this book by Anthony Grudin to recognize the profound, perplexing place that animals had in Andy Warhol’s life and art? From the pet cats he drew in the 1950s to the endangered species he portrayed in the ’80s, Warhol comes alive in Grudin’s book in his full creaturely—sometimes beastly—essence."—Blake Gopnik, author of Warhol

List of contents

Contents

Acknowledgments
A Note on Terminology

Introduction: Warhol's Nonhuman Life

1. "Like a Little Dog"
2. Factory Badlands
3. Machines, Animal and Vegetal
4. "Philosophy of the Fragile"
5. Queer Beauty and Extinction
Conclusion: The Python Priestess

Notes
Selected Bibliography
List of Illustrations
Index

 

About the author

Anthony E. Grudin, author of Warhol’s Working Class: Pop Art and Egalitarianism, is a mental health counselor and art historian who has taught at University of Vermont, California College of the Arts, and University of California, Berkeley.

Product details

• Authors: Anthony E. Grudin, Grudin Anthony E.
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2022
• EAN: 9780520383579
• ISBN: 978-0-520-38357-9
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; USA, ART / Subjects & Themes / Plants & Animals, ART / History / General, ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, ART / Subjects & Themes / Landscapes & Seascapes, ART / American / General, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, United States of America, USA, Individual artists, art monographs, Nature in art