Arthur C. Danto

Andy Warhol (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Astutely traces the ripple effects of Warhol's blurring of the lines between commercial and fine art, and art and real life...masterful."- Booklist (starred review) Art critic, philosopher, and winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award Arthur Dantodelivers a compact, masterfultour 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. By drawing on subject matter understandable to the ordinary American, Warhol revolutionized the way we look at art. In this book, Danto brings to bear encyclopedic knowledge of Warhol's time andshows us Warhol as an endlessly multidimensional figure-artist, political activist, filmmaker, writer, philosopher-who retains permanentresidence in our national imagination.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Yale University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780300154986
• Artikelnr.: 38201701

Autorenporträt

Arthur C. Danto is Johnsonian Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Columbia University and former art critic for The Nation. He is 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.