Andy Warhol (1928 1987) is hailed as the most important proponent of the Pop Art movement.
About the series: Each book in TASCHEN s Basic Art series features: a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance a concise biography approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions.
This book introduces Warhol s multifaceted, prolific oeuvre, which revolutionized distinctions between high and low art and integrated ideas of living, producing, and consuming that remain central questions of modern experience.
Famously stating I want to be a machine, he systematically reduced the presence of his own authorship, working with mass-production methods and images, as well as dozens of assistants in a studio he dubbed The Factory.
At the same time, Warhol reconfigured the role of the artist.
Through Warhol, a Campbell s soup can and Coca Cola bottle became as worthy of artistic status as any traditional still life.
Drawing on contemporary advertisements, comic strips, consumer products, and Hollywood s most famous faces, Warhol proposed a radical reevaluation of what constituted artistic subject matter.
A critical and creative observer of American society, he explored key themes of consumerism, materialism, media, and celebrity.
Andy Warhol (1928 1987) is hailed as the most important proponent of the Pop Art movement
