Warhol

ISBN-13: 9783836543897 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 96 str.

Klaus Honnef

Opis

Pop star: The artist who elevated popular culture into high art Andy Warhol (1928-1987) is recognized today as the most important exponent of the Pop Art movement. He overturned the traditional understanding of art and placed in its stead a concept that retracts the individuality of the artist.Warhol was a critical observer of American society, exposing his compatriots' consumerism in his paintings (Campbell andBrillo series), as well as their fascination for sensational journalism. In 1963 Warhol founded his Factory in New York--literally a manufactory of ideas and work, which influenced film in the 1960s. He published the influential magazineInterview in the late 1970s and also produced his own artwork: Warhol conceived the idea, and a worker in his factory carried it out.The work remained (consciously) unsigned--a fact which nevertheless did nothing to diminish Warhol's reputation. He once cynically mused that rich New Yorkers would willingly hang his Electric Chair in their living rooms--as long as its colors coordinated with the wallpaper and draperies.

O autorze

Klaus Honnef war Honorarprofessor für Fototheorie an der Kunsthochschule Kassel. Er war Mitorganisator der documenta 5 und der documenta 6 in Kassel und hat mehr als 500 Ausstellungen weltweit kuratiert. Er hat zahlreiche Bücher verfasst, darunter bei TASCHEN Kunst der Gegenwart, Andy Warhol und Pop Art.