Andy Warhol


A unique insight beneath the mask-like surface of Warhol's images.


Edited and presented by Melvyn Bragg, Produced and directed by Kim Evans


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Overview
  • This video is not available for delivery for delivery to addresses in the US, Canada, or Latin America
  • Surveys Warhol's development, from his early commercial art to his emergence as a leading figure of American Pop Art in the 1960s
  • Highlights Warhol's activities as a film-maker
  • Shows how his images acquired iconic status



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About the book
In his later career the American artist Andy Warhol (1928-87) was famous simply for being famous, so much had his own celebrity overtaken awareness of the art he actually produced. This paradoxical state of affairs receives a fascinating analysis in this film surveying Warhol's art. It begins with Warhol's early success in commercial art and reaction against the prevailing tenets of Abstract Expressionism, tracing his emergence as a leading figure of the American Pop Art movement of the early 1960s. It shows how his repeat images of mundane commodities such as Campbell's soup cans and Coca-Cola bottles, and the early mega-stars Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley, acquired iconic status as expressions of the American Dream in its new phase of mass-media culture and machine production. Warhol's activities as an 'underground' film-maker are also covered here in depth, with commentary from the cast members of such films as Sleep and the notoriously sexually explicit Chelsea Girls providing a unique insight beneath the mask-like surface of Warhol's images.


 

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