Like Andy Warhol
By: Jonathan Flatley
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780226505572
Copyright date: 2017
Description: "There are over 30 books about Andy Warhol. Jonathan Flatley's will be the first that is truly comprehensive--there's so much more to Warhol than the famous silk screens of Marilyn Monroe or the Campbell's soup cans--and the first to reveal the internal logic of the artist's life and his aesthetic activities, showing what binds them together, enabling us to see his art and life as a totality. Here's a partial inventory of Warhol's doings: movies (this includes Warhol's affection for bad acting), his collecting (jewelry, Art Deco furniture, perfumes, conversation tapes [10,000 hours], snapshots [66,000], even scores of Polaroids of male genitals [visitors to his studio were asked to drop their pants for the camera]), and, in addition to the silk screens, the paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, as well as novels and memoirs, there was even a monthly gossip magazine. For one two-year period, everyone who came to his studio (the Factory) was obliged to take a screen test, a collectivity of misfits misfitting together. Warhol had an extraordinary talent for liking things. Flatley appropriates liking as a central theme here, showing how Warhol helps us see likeness across differences. Like Andy Warhol is the best full-length study of the artist--and no single artist today is more representative of postmodern culture than Warhol."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: like; title: Collecting and collectivity; title: Art machine; title: Allegories of boredom; title: Skin problems.