Andy Warhol quizá sea el artista más popular del siglo xx. Pero su cine, al que se dedicó intensamente a partir de 1963, cuando entraba en el período más notorio de su carrera como pintor, sigue siendo desconocido para el gran público. Influido inicialmente por las películas de Ron Rice y Jack Smit
Andy Warhol
✍ Scribed by Danto, Arthur C
- Book ID
- 108087273
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780300135558
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
In a work of great wisdom and insight, art critic and philosopher Arthur Danto delivers a compact, masterful tour 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 and shows us Warhol as an endlessly multidimensional figure, artist, political activist, filmmaker, writer, philosopher, who retains permanent residence 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...
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