Andy warhol biografie deutsche
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Warhol – Ein Leben als Kunst
Die Biografie
The definitive biography of a fascinating and paradoxical figure, one of the most influential artists of his—or any—age
To this day, mention the name “Andy Warhol” to almost anyone and you’ll hear about his famous images of soup cans and Marilyn Monroe. But though Pop Art became synonymous with Warhol’s name and dominated the public’s image of him, his life and work are infinitely more complex and multi-faceted than that.
In Warhol, esteemed art critic Blake Gopnik takes on Andy Warhol in all his depth and dimensions. “The meanings of his art depend on the way he lived and who he was,” as Gopnik writes. “That’s why the details of his biography matter more than for almost any cultural figure,” from his working-class Pittsburgh upbringing as the child of immigrants to his early career in commercial art to his total immersion in the “performance” of being an artist, accompanied
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Andy Warhol
American artist, film director, and producer (1928–1987)
"Warhol" redirects here. For other uses, see Warhol (disambiguation) and Andy Warhol (disambiguation).
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| Born | Andrew Warhola Jr. (1928-08-06)August 6, 1928 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | February 22, 1987(1987-02-22) (aged 58) New York City, U.S. |
| Resting place | St. John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Cemetery, Bethel Park, Pennsylvania |
| Education | Carnegie Institute of Technology |
| Known for | Printmaking, painting, cinema, photography |
| Notable work | |
| Style | Pop art, contemporary art |
| Movement | Pop art |
| Partner | Jed Johnson (1968–1980) |
Andy Warhol (;[1] born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American visual artist, film director and producer. A leading figure in the pop art movement, Warhol is considered one the most important artists of the second half of the 20th century.[2& • AndyWarhol | Walther König Andy Warhol Now (Deutsche Ausgabe) "Andy Warhol Now" is the catalogue for the retrospective at the Musem Ludwig in Cologne, which impressively illustrates his ställning eller tillstånd as a Pop Art icon with 100 works, but includes his migrant background and homosexuality with a contemporary view.artbooksonline.eu
As an underground art star, Andy Warhol was the antidote to the macho American postwar art scene who redefinded the language of painting, sculpture and bio. This humanistic re-visioning explores his background as a child of an emigrant family, his ideas about death and religion and his queer perspective, revealing an artist who both succeeded and failed in equal measure and whose work marked a period of cultural transformation that still resonated today. Exploring Warhol's knowing flirtation with the commercial world of celebrity alongside his advocacy of alternative lifestyles, it presents his work within the the context of his time in a way th