Andy Warhol 365 Takes: The Andy Warhol Museum Collection

Andy Warhol 365 Takes: The Andy Warhol Museum Collection
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If you're a fan, your bookshelf is crying out for Andy Warhol: 365 Takes. And if you're not, this artfully designed volume may very well turn you into one. Read it straight through or dip in anywhere. Either way, you get an illustrated tour of Warhol's friends, lovers, personal history and obsessions (shoes, religion, jewels, mortality), as well as his art. Organized in a vaguely thematic way that blithely ignores chronology, this compact volume serves up a four-decade feast of creativity in bite-size nuggets: a very Warholian approach. Facing pages juxtapose a Warhol image with a well-chosen morsel of text. Drawn from diverse sources, including The Andy Warhol Diaries, the texts illuminate the images with useful tidbits of insider information. Reproductions of Warhol's work reveal his extraordinary range and inventiveness, from the delicate, lyrical drawing for a jazz record cover from the 1950s to rueful self-portrait photos in drag from the early 1980s. Of course, much of the famous work is here as wellâ€”the Death and Disaster Series, the Brillo boxes, the Three Marilyns, the celebrity portraits of the 1070s, the collaborations with the Velvet Underground. One of the most intriguing aspects of the book is the way it uses Warhol's vast personal collection of ephemera to show how a newspaper headline, shop window or movie star magazine could inform the look of his art. This great compendium of Warholiana is marred only by the occasionally smug, fanzine tone of remarks by The Andy Warhol Museum staff. Thereâ€™s no need to overstate the case for Warhol; his outsized reputation is secure. --Cathy Curtis
Country USA
Brand Abrams Books
Manufacturer Abrams
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber Illustrated
ReleaseDate 2004-05-12
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780810943292

Country	USA
Brand	Abrams Books
Manufacturer	Abrams
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	Illustrated
ReleaseDate	2004-05-12
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780810943292

Andy Warhol 365 Takes: The Andy Warhol Museum Collection

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