Format:
XIX, 162 S.
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Ill.
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24 cm
ISBN:
9780300169089
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9780300135558
Series Statement:
Icons of America
Content:
"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 everything he made art out of came straight out of the daily lives of very ordinary Americans .... The tastes and values of ordinary persons all at once were inseparable from advanced art."--Book jacket
Note:
Originally published: 2009. - Includes bibliographical references and index
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The window at Bonwit's -- Pop, politics, and the gap between art and life -- The Brillo box -- Moving images -- The first death -- Andy Warhol enterprises -- Religion and common experience.
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Danto, Arthur C. Andy Warhol New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 2009 ISBN 9780300154986
Language:
English
Subjects:
Art History
Keywords:
Warhol, Andy 1928-1987
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USA
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Kunst
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Gesellschaft
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Warhol, Andy 1928-1987
Author information:
Warhol, Andy 1928-1987
Author information:
Danto, Arthur Coleman 1924-2013
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