Andy Warhol, Poetry, and Gossip in the 1960s / Edition 2

by Reva Wolf

Overview

Andy Warhol is usually remembered as the artist who said that he wanted to be a machine, and that no one need ever look further than the surface when evaluating him or his art. Arguing against this carefully crafted pop image, Reva Wolf shows that Warhol was in fact deeply emotionally engaged with the people around him and that this was reflected in his art.

Wolf investigates the underground culture of poets, artists, and filmmakers who interacted with Warhol regularly. She claims that Warhol understood the literary imagination of his generation and that recognizing Warhol's literary activities is essential to understanding his art. Drawing on a wealth of unpublished material, including interviews, personal and public archives, tape recordings, documentary photographs, and works of art, Wolf offers dramatic evidence that Warhol's interactions with writers functioned like an extended conversation and details how this process impacted his work. This highly original and fascinating study gives us fresh insight into Warhol's art as practice and reformulates the myth that surrounds this popular American artist.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780226904931
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Publication date:	11/24/1997
Edition description:	1
Pages:	226
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.38(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1: Portraiture, Poetry, and Gossip
2: Andy Warhol at the Crossroads of Poetry and Visual Art: The Mimeograph Revolution
3: Expanding Worlds: Poetry Off the Page
4: Artistic Appropriation and the Image of the Poet as Thief
5: The "Flower Thief": The "Film Poem," Warhol's Early Films, and the Beat Writers
Conclusion
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

While most critics claim that Warhol and his art lack personal, emotional significance, Wolf (art history, State University of New York-New Paltz) argues that Warhol was deeply emotionally engaged with the people around him and that he expressed these feelings through his art. She investigates the underground culture of poets, artists, and filmmakers of Warhol's world and shows how understanding these relations is essential to understanding his art. Includes b&w photos. Paper edition (unseen), $27.95. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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