Boekdetails
Formaat
Hardcover
Pagina's
64
Taal
Engels
Gepubliceerd
Jan 1, 1998
Uitgever
Salon Verlag Jablonka Galerie
ISBN-10
3932189655
ISBN-13
9783932189654
Beschrijving
More than any other artist, Andy Warhol had a knack for elevating the images and objects of ordinary life into artifacts of a collective consciousness. In the early 1980s Warhol produced a series of paintings separately depicting guns, knives, and as critic Robert Rosenblum notes in his introduction, such works reflected the dark side of Warhol's mirror of America: "while creating an inventory of...superstars and supermarket favorites, (Warhol) also compiled an anthology of the American way of death, from car crashes and race riots to the electric chair itself". Seen together the knives are hunting and seductive.