Andy Warhol

A comprehensive visual biography of the life and career of Andy Warhol that contains 2,000 images and documents that depicts the major events, people, works and moments in the artist's life told in chronological order by subject.

This book charts the emergence of Marisol (1930-2016) and Andy Warhol (1928-1987) in New York during the dawn of Pop art in the early 1960s. The exhibition explores the artists' parallel rises to success, the formation of their artistic personas, their savvy navigation of gallery relationships, and the blossoming of their early artistic practices from 1960 to 1968. The exhibition features key loans of Marisol's work from major global collections, along with iconic works and rarely seen films and archival materials from The Warhol's collection. Born in Paris to Venezuelan parents, Marisol (Maria Sol Escobar) held a central position in the New York art scene and American Pop movement. Over time, however, she was written out of the white male-dominated Pop narrative. By situating her work in dialogue with Warhol's, this exhibition seeks to reclaim the importance of her practice; reframe the strength, originality, and daring nature of her work; and reconsider her as one of the leading figures of the Pop era. The exhibition highlights shared themes in the artists' works: iconic Pop subjects of Coca-Cola and the Kennedy family; Warhol's covertly queer early paintings with Marisol's investigation of the female experience; the artists' roles as influencers in the New York gallery scene; and expansive ideas of installation. Integrated throughout the exhibition are Warhol's silent films of Marisol, produced in 1963-1964, which capture an intimate side of her otherwise reserved persona.

Portretten door de Amerikaanse pop-art schilder.

"Warhol's Queens combines the artist's portraits of actual female royalty with images of drag queens. For Warhol (1928-1987), both these genuine and fake queens epitomized idealized femininity, devoting their lives to presenting an unattainably glittering pageantry to the public for (not all too) close inspection. This volume juxtaposes Warhol's Polaroids of Princess Caroline of Monaco, Farah Diba Pahlavi and the then-Crown Princess Sonja, of Norway, with drag queens, whom Warhol characterized as 'living testimony to the way women used to want to be, the way some people still want them to be and the way some women still actually want to be.' The intense faces with their exceptionally colored lips, eyes and hair are both aloof and strangely intimate. With its in-depth scholarly essays, this book is essential for fans of Warhol's portraiture and camp culture."--Publisher description.

Highlights from the PopArt collection by alumnus Lex Harding. 33 original, Warhol-signed, screen prints will hang on Nyenrode until the end of May. Campbell's soup, Marilyn Monroe and Queen Beatrix are present of course, but so are a number of unique Mick Jaggers, in addition to Mao and Lenin, plus Grace Kelly, Elizabeth Taylor and Jane Fonda, to name a few. Exhibition: Art Fund Nyenrode, Breukelen, The Netherlands (09.2020 - 05.2021). Hoogtepunten uit de PopArt verzameling van alumnus Lex Harding. 33 originele, door Warhol gesigneerde, zeefdrukken hangen tot eind mei op Nyenrode. Campbellss soup, Marilyn Monroe en Koningin Beatrix zijn aanwezig uiteraard, maar ook een aantal unieke Mick Jaggers, naast Mao en Lenin, plus Grace Kelly, Elizabeth Taylor en Jane Fonda, om er een paar te noemen. Exhibition: Art Fund Nyenrode, Breukelen, The Netherlands (09.2020 - 05.2021).

Andy Warhol loved books. From his student days onward, he was fascinated by the medium of print. Starting with illustrations for famous novels by Truman Capote or Katherine Anne Porter, he was a successful graphic designer who also made playful thematic booklets that he handed out to New York's fashion scene as advertising. He designed covers for large publishing companies and made silkscreens and lithographs for the covers of poetry books written by author friends. In his own books he documented the film and photographic work done at his Factory. Warhol blasted apart the usual genres of literature by having sound recordings transcribed and published. This extensive volume presents his achievements in book design and writing from the standpoints of art history and literary theory.