Andy Warhol : velvet rage and beauty / Klaus Biesenbach, editor.

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English
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  • Munich ; London ; New York : Prestel, [2024]
  • ©2024
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302 pages : illustrations (black and white, and color). portraits ; 32 cm

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"Andy Warhol's continuous pursuit of ideal beauty--visible in a body of his work that is brought here together for the first time. Andy Warhol is arguably one of the most widely known and discussed artists of the twentieth century. While his depictions of consumer products and celebrities led him to become household famous, there is a red thread throughout his career, starting even in the late forties until his untimely death in 1987. In the eighties Warhol was continuously searching to visualize an ideal of beauty, male beauty, finding form and creating lasting images of what he desired. He visualized and therefore eternalized this continuous pursuit of ideal beauty. From the early line and blotted line drawings to his screen tests and moving image experiments in the sixties, the torso paintings in the seventies through his collaborations with Jean-Michel Basquiat, there is a continuous search to express an ideal of male beauty. During his lifetime these works were either considered inappropriate, immoral, deviant or even pornographic and therefore illegal. Many of these works never received the public exposure and recognition that they deserve. Neue Nationalgalerie is for the first time putting together a large survey focusing on this thematic and central aspect throughout Warhol's different production phases and stages of career. This publication offers an insight into a Warhol, that during his lifetime never had a real "coming-out"." -- Provided by publisher.
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Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Neue Nationalgalerie Stiftung Preussicher Kulturbesitz June 9 - October 6, 2024.
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Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
  • Welcoming words / Christian Kohorst
  • Preface / Klaus Biesenbach
  • Warhol's queerness: omitted and revealed / Lisa Botti
  • Religion, philosophy, landscape, political theory, transcendence, documentary, medicine? / A conversation with Wayne Koestenbaum
  • Hidden Warhol, queer Warhol, gay Warhol, fluid Warhol, trans Warhol, secretive Warhol, dark Warhol, doubting Warhol, illegal Warhol, celebratory Warhol / A conversation with Blake Gopnik
  • It's always there / A conversation with Donna de Salvo
  • The tension between concealing and flaunting / A conversation with Jessica Beck
  • Velvet rage and beauty: works from 1949-1987.
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Velvet rage and beauty
ISBN
  • 3791377655 ((hardback))
  • 9783791377650 ((hardback))
OCLC
1426008421
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  • 9783791377650
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