Andy Warhol Prints
Subtitle: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation
Publisher: D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780692764473
Subjects: Warhol, andy, 1928-1987; Art, collectors and collecting
Description: "I'm for mechanical art," said Andy Warhol (1928-87). "When I took up silkscreening, it was to more fully exploit the preconceived image through commercial techniques of multiple reproduction." Printmaking was a vital artistic practice for Warhol. Prints figure prominently throughout his career from his earliest work as a commercial illustrator in the 1950s to the collaborative silkscreens made in the Factory during the 1960s and the commissioned portfolios of his final years. In their fascination with popular culture and provocative subverting of the difference between original and copy, Warhol's prints are recognized now as a prescient forerunner of today's hyper-sophisticated, hyper-saturated and hyper-accelerated visual culture.