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From his life to his work, Andy Warhol is an enigma. The leading figure of the pop art movement, Warhol created paintings, films, performance art, and his famous studio, the Factory, in New York City. Fans, aficionados, enthusiasts, experts, and critics alike have tried to make sense of Warhol, creating a wealth of knowledge and speculation. Blake Stimson builds on this project in this gorgeously illustrated book, which brings new attention to the philosophical and creative influences behind Warhols life and work. Citizen Warhol leads us through the artists youth, from his religiously infused childhood and adolescence in Pittsburgh to his university training at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, where he was profoundly affected by Carnegies industrial-age theory of art. Stimson recounts Warhols brief but formative dalliance with the guilt-riddled sensibility and decadent lifestyle of Aubrey Beardsley, an English illustrator whose drawings emphasize the grotesque and the erotic. In addition, Stimson describes how the Byzantine-influenced religious rituals of Warhols childhood affected his relationships with the figures who starred in his films and staffed the Factory, as well as

Author

Stimson, Blake, author

Publisher

London: Reaktion Books

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781780231921

Subjects

Art, Arts