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Death and Disasters: Andy Warhol

Death and Disasters: Andy Warhol

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(Ausstellung). 1988 134 Seiten; zahlr. Illustr.; graph. Darst.; 28 cm; fadengeh. Broschur. Sehr gutes, sauberes Exemplar. - Vorwort von Walter Hopps. - Englisch. - This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition Andy Warhol Death and Disasters, presented at The Menil Collection, October 21, 1988 - January 8, 1989. (Impressum) // Andy Warhol (* 6. August 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania[2]; 22. Februar 1987 in Manhattan, New York City; eigentlich Andrew Warhola) war ein amerikanischer Künstler, Filmemacher und Verleger sowie Mitbegründer und bedeutendster Vertreter der Pop Art in Amerika. Seine Karriere begann bereits in den 1950er Jahren als Grafiker und Illustrator für Mode-, Hochglanz- und Lifestylemagazine und entwickelte sich schnell. Er hinterließ ein umfangreiches Gesamtwerk, das von Werbegrafiken bis zu Gemälden, Objekten, Filmen und Büchern reicht. Zudem war er auch als Musikproduzent tätig. ... (wiki) // " ... Despite their initial lack of popularity, the high proportion of these works relative to his overall output, would seem to underscore their importance for Warhol. His choice of subjects ranges from the personal focus of individual suicide, to the banality of everyday disasters, death by socially-determined execution, the historical death of political assassination, and culminates in the greatest instrument of destruction this century has produced. Warhol's fascination with death is a striking twentieth-century manifestation of a mode that flourished within Romanticism, from Poe in America in the early nineteenth century to the later French Symbolists. For Warhol, a preoccupation with the macabre involved detachment and distance. However, the horror of death and the flesh's ruination that fixated Poe and the Symbolists is not poetically invoked by Warhol, but taken as is, documented in a moment whose banality is mediated by its particularities. Taking violent death as an ever-present subject, he has suffused it with the idiosyncrasies o ...
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Paperback
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Art Data
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Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
0940619032
Weight:
1361 g
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