The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)
Ranked #30 in Art, Ranked #46 in Artist Biography
In The Philosophy of Andy Warhol—which, with the subtitle "(From A to B and Back Again)," is less a memoir than a collection of riffs and reflections—he talks about love, sex, food, beauty, fame, work, money, and success; about New York, America, and his childhood in McKeesport, Pennsylvania; about his good times and bad in New York, the explosion of his career in the sixties, and his life among celebrities. less
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Hal Foster My version of Warhol is very different from others’. So often he is seen as the artist most at ease with the iconicity of celebrities and products, and with the image-world of consumer society at large. I focus instead on how distressed his works are. They show how difficult it is to project an image and sustain a brand, no matter who you are – star, criminal or average Joe. (Source)
Will Hobson There was something very utopian about Warhol’s images of iconic consumer objects, of which the Rorschach Test was one. (Source)
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