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Andy Warhol Arthur C. Danto

Andy Warhol By Arthur C. Danto

Andy Warhol by Arthur C. Danto


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Delivers a tour of Andy Warhol's personal, artistic, and philosophical transformations. This title 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.

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Andy Warhol by Arthur C. Danto

An elegant, masterful portrait of Andy Warhol's life, character, and lasting influence by an eminent art critic.

Danto . . . sums up the Pop master's evolution as both artist and persona. . . . It is, in essence, everything you need to dive deeper into Brillo boxes and Empire.-Rachel Wolff, The Daily Beast(Best Art and Photography Books of 2009)

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.

Andy Warhol Reviews

'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.' 'An incisive, essential account... No interpreter of Warhol can escape the influence of Danto's uniquely perceptive understanding... His book distils a lifetime's thinking about Warhol and modern aesthetics.' Jackie Wullschlager, Financial Times 'Mr Danto is an elegant and erudite writer.' Deborah Solomon, International Herald Tribune

About Arthur C. Danto

Arthur C. Danto was Johnsonian Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Columbia University and art critic for The Nation. He was the author of numerous books, including Unnatural Wonders: Essays from the Gap Between Art and Life, After the End of Art, and Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective.

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CIN0300169086G
9780300169089
0300169086
Andy Warhol by Arthur C. Danto
Used - Good
Paperback
Yale University Press
2010-09-28
192
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