Andy Warhol by Wayne Koestenbaum

Andy Warhol by Wayne Koestenbaum

An intimate depiction of the visionary who revolutionized the art world A man who created portraits of the rich and powerful, Andy Warhol was one of the most incendiary figures in American culture, a celebrity whose star shone as brightly as those of the Marilyns and Jackies whose likenesses brought him renown. Images of his silvery wig and glasses are as famous as his renderings of soup cans and Brillo boxes controversial works that elevated commerce to high art. Warhol was an enigma: a partygoer who lived with his mother, an inarticulate man who was a great aphorist, an artist whose body of work sizzles with sexuality but who considered his own body to be a source of shame. In critic and poet Wayne Koestenbaum s dazzling look at Warhol s life, the author inspects the roots of Warhol s aesthetic vision, including the pain that informs his greatness, and reveals the hidden sublimity of Warhol s provocative films. By looking at many facets of the artist s oeuvre films, paintings, books, Happenings Koestenbaum delivers a thought-provoking picture of pop art s greatest icon.

An intimate depiction of the visionary who revolutionized the art world A man who created portraits of the rich and powerful, Andy Warhol was one of the most incendiary figures in American culture, a celebrity whose star shone as brightly as those of the Marilyns and Jackies whose likenesses brought him renown. Images of his silvery wig and glasses are as famous as his renderings of soup cans and Brillo boxes controversial works that elevated commerce to high art. Warhol was an enigma: a partygoer who lived with his mother, an inarticulate man who was a great aphorist, an artist whose body of work sizzles with sexuality but who considered his own body to be a source of shame. In critic and poet Wayne Koestenbaum s dazzling look at Warhol s life, the author inspects the roots of Warhol s aesthetic vision, including the pain that informs his greatness, and reveals the hidden sublimity of Warhol s provocative films. By looking at many facets of the artist s oeuvre films, paintings, books, Happenings Koestenbaum delivers a thought-provoking picture of pop art s greatest icon.

“Throughout, Koestenbaum’s engagements with Warhol’s life and art, tinged with poetic brilliance and surgical dispassion, feel very high-stakes indeed, making this book an engrossing battle of wills”  —Publishers Weekly

“This is a portrait of the artist’s heart and mind, a biography of his insides, the impulses that drove him to create.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

“[Koestenbaum] gives us a Warhol who is ineffably sad but heroic too: a man full of bravado, patience, energy and devotion to work, to making things. It’s a book that should tempt both those generally familiar with Andy Warhol and, even more, young people who have trouble imagining how popular art can challenge the status quo.” —Los Angeles Times

Wayne Koestenbaum holds a B.A. from Harvard and a Ph.D. in English from Princeton University. After being named co-winner of the 1989 Discovery/The Nation poetry contest, he published his first book of verse, Ode to Anna Moffo and Other Poems, which was chosen as one of The Village Voice Literary Supplement's Favorite Books of 1990. He has since published two other books of poetry and three books of prose, including a collection of essays, Cleavage: Essays on Sex, Stars, and Aesthetics (Ballantine, 2000). He is a tenured Professor of English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

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ISBN 10	1497699894
Title	Andy Warhol
Author	Wayne Koestenbaum
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Open Road Media
Year published	2015-02-17
Number of pages	236
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