Andy Warhol: A Retrospective - Hardcover

McShine, Kynaston; Rosenblum, Robert; Buchloh, Benjamin H. D.; Livingstone

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0870706802 ISBN 13: 9780870706806

Publisher: Museum of Modern Art, 1999

Synopsis

Provides a summation of the life and career of American artist Andy Warhol

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Warhol, who died in 1987, can be viewed as a relentless observer, who dwelled obsessively upon images representative of our century: the electric chair, a jet crash, the Soviet hammer and sickle, screen idols, politicians, symbolic volcanoes. A retrospective now at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which this lengthy tome catalogues, reveals that some of Warhol's most suggestive works are among his least well-known, to wit, his space-age Moonwalk (1987), a Rorschach-like series of paintings, and the enormous, Asiatic-looking Oxidation Paintings done in metallic pigments. Packed with 325 color plates and 332 in black and white, this six-pounder includes four academic, hyperbolic essays, 33 pages of first-hand impressions of Warhol by cultural celebs, and 10 pages of his instant wit and wisdom.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal:

One of the most controversial and influential figures on the American cultural scene, Warhol embodied the idiosyncracies of modern times in his art and life. This catalog, which accompanies his first major retrospective, shows the range of his career in over 600 illustrations (277 in color). Four essays assess his impact, his sources, his technical methods, and his roots in commercial art. The picture is rounded out by a chronology that documents his life and career, a section offering comments and images by his colleagues, and a compilation of statements by the artist himself. A handsome and definitive work, recommended for general, art, and modern culture collections.
- Robin Kaplan, The Information Group, Los Angeles
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0870706802
• ISBN 13: 9780870706806
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 496