Andy Warhol

by Peter Gidal and Andy Warhol

In 1961 a fashionable commercial artist named Andy Warhol created an artistic furor in New York with his deadpan versions of the Campbell's Soup can. Since then he has become the most talked about but... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306804565
• ISBN13: 9780306804564
• Release Date: August 1991
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

Capturing Warhol

Nobody has understood the work of Andy Warhol like Gidal. It is not filled with gossip about Andy doing this and Andy saying that like 90% of all Warhol-books. This is about his art, and it's damn good!

must-read!

At the end of a century where the primitive has finally begun to be understood as complex, and the complex has been revealed quite often to be primitive, Gidal's searing analysis soars above the all-too-common self-adulatory art criticism. Gidal truly understands art and 20th century culture (as Warhol did!), and his book deserves repeated reading.