General & Miscellaneous American Art, Individual Artists, Pop/Op Art & the 1960s

Andy Warhol: Other Voices, Other Rooms

Name: Andy Warhol: Other Voices, Other Rooms
Author: Andy Warhol
ISBN: 9789056626020

by Andy Warhol, Greg Pierce (Contribution by), Geralyn Huxley

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Overview

Beyond the familiar Campbell's Soup cans, Brillo boxes, silkscreened Marilyn Monroes and floating silver mylar pillows, 20 years after Pop icon Andy Warhol's death, we are still picking through his incredibly prolific output to understand what his artistic legacy actually is. Andy Warhol: Other Voices, Other Rooms, published on the occasion of the major exhibition by the same name at Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum, provides some new insight, digging into Warhol's lesser-known film, video and audio tape works. Important--and just a little scandalous--films like Blow Job and Kiss, audio tapes of celebrities, friends and anonymous hangers-on talking and other marginalia are considered alongside a selection of key photographs, drawings, screen prints and spatial installations, such as the spectacular "Silver Clouds," originally shown in 1966. Edited by Eva Meyer-Hermann and with contributions by Geralyn Huxley, Greg Pierce and Warhol Museum Archivist, Matt Wrbican, who is currently unpacking hundreds of never-before-seen Warhol Time Capsules in Pittsburgh, this volume brings readers up to date with the most recent developments in the way we see the late artist's oeuvre.

Synopsis

Edited by Eva Meyer-Hermann. Text by Eva Meyer-Hermann, Matt Wrbican, Geralyn Huxley, Greg Pierce, Hal Foster.

About the Author, Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1928. In 1949, after attending the School of Fine Arts at what is now Carnegie Mellon University, he moved to New York City where he embarked on a successful career as a commercial illustrator. It was in the 1960s that he began his iconic Campbell's Soup paintings, and honed his trademark deadpan persona. Throughout the 1960s and 70s, Warhol created silkscreen paintings, sculptures and films, promoted the fledgling rock band, The Velvet Underground, and produced Interview magazine. After surviving a gunshot wound inflicted by the infamous Valerie Solanis in 1968, Warhol died during a routine gallbladder operation in 1987.

"Critic and scholar Hal Foster is the author of The Return of the Real, Vision and Visuality, and The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture. He has held numerous editorial positions, including at October, Zone, Art in America, and Artforum, and is presently the Townsend Martin Class of 1917 Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University."