Brandee Simons
Books:
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Indiana, Gary, and Andy Warhol. Andy Warhol and the Can That Sold the World.
New York: Basic, 2010. Print.
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Ketner, Joseph D. Andy Warhol: Phaidon Focus. London: Phaidon, 2013. Print.
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Warhol participated in the Pop Art revolution of the early 1960s that
elevated representational images of commercial and popular culture into
the vocabulary of art. Pop Art resonated throughout the western world,
with recognizable images of familiar people and commonplace things
that a broad public could understand and appreciate.
Koestenbaum, Wayne. Andy Warhol: A Biography. New York: Open Road Media,
2015. Print.
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In the summer of 1962, Andy Warhol revealed 32 Soup Cans in his first solo
exhibition at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles and sent the art world reeling.
The responses ran from disbelief to outrage. The exhibition put Warhol on
the map and transformed American culture forever.
Andy tried to fade into his entourage. He had a peculiar way of treating
people as if they were amoebic secretions of his own watchfulness. In
practice his friends or collaborators often found themselves erased into
nonbeing, crossed off the historical record, their signatures obliterated,
their experiences absorbed into Warhol’s corpus.
Warhol, Andy. The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: (From A to B and Back Again). New
York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975. Print.
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Andy Warhol talks about love, food, beauty, fame, work, money, success;
about New York and America; about himself and his childhood in
McKeesport, Pennsylvania. The good times, the bad times in the Big Apple,
the explosion of his career in the sixties, and life among celebrities.
Brandee Simons
Websites:
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"Andy Warhol Art - 1091 Artworks, Biography & Shows on Artsy." Andy Warhol Art 1091 Artworks, Biography & Shows on Artsy. N.p., 20 Mar. 2015. Web. 29 Oct. 2015.
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Warhol found a way to make art of nearly everything he did, such as
experimenting with a prolific variety of artistic media. From the early 1950s
to his death in 1987, he was an outstanding contributor to the realms of
commercial illustration, graphic design, painting, printmaking, celebrity
portraiture, performance art, and film. His artistic instinct and commercial
success generated an extraordinary cult of attention around him, one that
remains strong even after his death.
“Andy Warhol Biography." Warhol: Biography. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Oct. 2015.
o Andy Warhol was born on August 6, 1928, in a two-room row house
apartment at 73 Orr Street in Pittsburgh. His parents, Carpatho-Rusyn
immigrants Andrej and Julia Warhola, had three sons. Andy was the
youngest among the brothers.
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Biography.com Editors. "Andy Warhol Biography." Bio.com. A&E Networks
Television, n.d. Web. 29 Oct. 2015
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By the age of 8, Warhol developed Chorea, a rare and sometimes fatal
disease of the nervous system that left him bedridden for several months. It
was during these months, that Warhol was sick in bed, that his mother, a
skilled artist, gave him his first drawing lessons. Drawing soon became
Warhol's favorite childhood activity. He was also a big fan of the movies,
and when his mother bought him a camera when he turned 9 he decided
to take up photography as well as developing film in a makeshift darkroom
he set up in their basement.
Brandee Simons
Articles:
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Needham, Alex. "Andy Warhol's Legacy Lives on in the Factory of Fame."The
Guardian. N.p., 22 Feb. 2012. Web. 29 Oct. 2015.
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O'Brien, Glenn. "Andy Warhol's Influence on Art Today." Andy Warhol's Influence
on Art Today. N.p., 30 Mar. 2010. Web. 29 Oct. 2015.
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Warhol's major idea that the stuff of modern life could be art, from
Campbell's soup cans to washing-powder boxes, thrilled the art world in
the 60s. Warhol summed up, defined and in many ways embodied the
world in which we now live. Everyone thinks he's emotionless and soulless,
but the growing effect of seeing all the Marilyns and Orange Disasters is
extremely powerful.
Warhol created the model for so many of today’s art. In his 1975 book, The
Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again), Warhol made
the first of his infamous statements about business and art. He wrote:
“During the hippie era people put down the idea of business—they’d say
‘Money is bad,’ and ‘Working is bad,’ but making money is art and working
is art and good business is the best art.” Though this was a provoking thing
to say at the time, irritation had been Warhol’s motivation since the sixties,
when his studio became known as the Factory. Warhol, who had started
his career as a commercial artist, instinctively grasped that the lone artist in
his garret was a creature of simpler times.
"Warhol in Washington." The New York Times. The New York Times, 20 Oct. 2011.
Web. 29 Oct. 2015.
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Two aspects of Andy Warhol’s art are on display in different but
corresponding shows in Washington, writes Holland Cotter. “The larger and
more complex of them, ‘Warhol: Headlines’ at the National Gallery of Art,
left, is a dense, jittery but judiciously scaled thematic look at his career-long
use of news-related material drawn from print journalism, photography
and films.”