Andy Warhol - Rilegato

Danto, Arthur C.

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ISBN 10: 0300135556 ISBN 13: 9780300135558

Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 2009

Riassunto

In a work of great wisdom and insight, art critic and philosopher Arthur Danto delivers a compact, masterful tour of Andy Warhol’s personal, artistic, and philosophical transformations. Danto traces the evolution of the pop artist, including his early reception, relationships with artists such as Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, and the Factory phenomenon. He offers close readings of individual Warhol works, including their social context and philosophical dimensions, key differences with predecessors such as Marcel Duchamp, and parallels with successors like Jeff Koons. Danto brings to bear encyclopedic knowledge of Warhol’s time and shows us Warhol as an endlessly multidimensional figure—artist, political activist, filmmaker, writer, philosopher—who retains permanent residence in our national imagination.

Danto suggests that "what makes him an American icon is that his subject matter is always something that the ordinary American understands: everything, or nearly everything he made art out of came straight out of the daily lives of very ordinary Americans. . . . The tastes and values of ordinary persons all at once were inseparable from advanced art."

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Recensione:

'Grounding the Pop Pope in the aesthetic discourse of The Transfiguration of the Commonplace, philosopher and art critic Danto presents Warhol's achievement with great clarity and acuity. This is now the essential book on Warhol and on the philosophical basis of contemporary art.' - John Perreault, Artopia (artsjournal.com/artopia) --John Perreault

L'autore:

Arthur C. Danto was Johnsonian Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Columbia University and art critic forThe Nation. He was the author of numerous books, including Unnatural Wonders: Essays from the Gap Between Art and Life,After the End of Art, and Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective.

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• Editore: Yale Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0300135556
• ISBN 13: 9780300135558
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 162