| Andy Warhol, Poetry, and Gossip in the 1960s Contributor(s): Wolf, Reva (Author) |
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ISBN: 0226904938 ISBN-13: 9780226904931 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $55.44 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1997 Annotation: Pop icon Andy Warhol claimed a machine mentality, and that no one need look further than the surface to evaluate him or his art. Reva Wolf shows that Warhol was actually deeply emotionally engaged with the people around him, which his art reflected. Drawing on a wealth of unpublished material, Wolf offers dramatic evidence that Warhol's extended interactions with writers and others did affect his work. 4 color plates. 80 halftones. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Individual Artists - General - Biography & Autobiography | Artists, Architects, Photographers |
| Dewey: 700.92 |
| LCCN: 96046791 |
| Physical Information: 0.57" H x 6.5" W x 9.33" (0.96 lbs) 226 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Andy Warhol is usually remembered as the artist who said that he wanted to be a machine, and that no one need ever look further than the surface when evaluating him or his art. Arguing against this carefully crafted pop image, Reva Wolf shows that Warhol was in fact deeply emotionally engaged with the people around him and that this was reflected in his art. Wolf investigates the underground culture of poets, artists, and filmmakers who interacted with Warhol regularly. She claims that Warhol understood the literary imagination of his generation and that recognizing Warhol's literary activities is essential to understanding his art. Drawing on a wealth of unpublished material, including interviews, personal and public archives, tape recordings, documentary photographs, and works of art, Wolf offers dramatic evidence that Warhol's interactions with writers functioned like an extended conversation and details how this process impacted his work. This highly original and fascinating study gives us fresh insight into Warhol's art as practice and reformulates the myth that surrounds this popular American artist. |
