| Names: | | | Dates: | 1928, 6 August - 1987, 22 February | | Born: | US, PA, McKeesport | | Active: | US | | Gender: | Male |
American pop artist, sculptor, illustrator, writer, film maker and photographer.Preparing biographies
Biography provided by Focal Press
The most famous Pop artist of America, Warhol came onto the art scene in the early 1960s with his Campbell’s Soup Cans, a campy image of a product he loved elevated to iconic status. His affect-less images of mass-produced American products and his Pop Culture portraits used images appropriated from mass media as their source; with stylish simplicity he transformed photographic information, using garishly bright silk-screened colors and flat painted forms to raise banality to monumental status. Aiming for robot-like authorship, Warhol’s work was itself often mass-produced, with assistants creating repetitive, multiple-image silk-screened pieces. Moving fluidly from one medium to another, his prolific output also included the publication of his magazine Interview and over 60 films produced from 1963 to 1968.
(Author: Garie Waltzer - Photographer and consultant)
Michael Peres (Editor-in-Chief), 2007, Focal Encyclopedia of Photography, 4th edition, (Focal Press) [ISBN-10: 0240807405, ISBN-13: 978-0240807409]
(Used with permission)
Readings on, or by, individual photographers
McShine, K. (ed.), 1989, Andy Warhol, A Retrospective, (New York: Museum of Modern Art) [Δ]
Warhol, Andy, 1988, Andy Warhol: Death and Disasters, (Houston, TX: Menil Collection: Houston Fine Art Press) [Δ]
Warhol, Andy, 1989, Andy Warhol, Photobooth Pictures, (New York: Robert Miller Gallery) [Δ]
Warhol, Andy, 1999, About Face: Andy Warhol Portraits, (Hartford, CT: Wadsworth Atheneum and Pittsburgh: Andy Warhol Museum, Cambridge, MA: Distributed by MIT Press) [Essays by Baume, Nicholas, Crimp, Douglas, Meyer, and Richard.] [Δ]
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