Andy Warhol is probably one of the best known and most talked about artists of the 20th century. Although his depictions of consumer goods and celebrities made him famous, there is a common thread running through his career from the late 1940s until his untimely death in 1987. In the 1980s, Warhol was constantly seeking to visualize an ideal of beauty, male beauty, find form and create lasting images of what he desired. He therefore visualized and immortalized this constant pursuit of ideal beauty.
From the early line and spot drawings to his screen tests and experiments with moving image in the 1960s, the torso paintings in the 1970s and his collaboration with Jean-Michel Basquiat, there is an ongoing quest to express an ideal of male beauty. During his lifetime, these works were considered inappropriate, immoral, deviant or even pornographic and therefore illegal. Many of these works never received the public attention and recognition they deserved. The Neue National gallery is putting together for the first time a large survey focusing on this thematic and central aspect in Warhol's various stages of production and stages of his career. The coffee table book "Andy Warhol: Velvet Rage and Beauty" offers insight into a Warhol who never had a true "coming-out" during his lifetime.
Warhol died in 1987 at the age of just 58. He left behind an incredibly complex and influential body of work, which during his lifetime never enjoyed the open acceptance we now have for looking at these particular bodies of work.
Specifications
Title: Andy Warhol: Velvet Rage and Beauty
Author: Klaus Biesenbach
Publisher: Prestell
Size: 215 x 140 x 27 mm
Size: 304 pages
Weight:
Language: English
Material: Hardcover
ISBN: 9783791377650
Release: September 2024
