具体描述
After 32 Soup Cans , neither America nor the art world would ever be the same. Gary Indiana offers a witty and opinionated biography of a momentous work of art--and its deeply troubled creator. In the summer of 1962, Andy Warhol unveiled 32 Soup Cans in his first solo exhibition at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles--and sent the art world reeling. The responses ran from incredulity to outrage; the poet Taylor Mead described the exhibition as "a brilliant slap in the face to America." The exhibition put Warhol on the map--and transformed American culture forever. Almost single-handedly, Warhol had collapsed the centuries-old distinction between "high" and "low" culture, and created a new and radically modern aesthetic. In Andy Warhol and the Can That Sold the World , the dazzlingly versatile critic Gary Indiana draws on interviews with many members of Warhol's Factory, as well as his own personal recollections of Warhol himself, to tell the story of the genesis and impact of this iconic work of art. With energy, wit, and tremendous perspicacity, Indiana recovers the exhilaration and controversy of the Pop Art Revolution--and the brilliant, tormented, and profoundly narcissistic figure at its vanguard.
作者简介
Novelist, playwright, actor, art critic, film historian, enfant terrible - Gary Indiana is one of the most supple and imaginative figures in contemporary American culture. He is the author of 32 books, including the novels Horse Crazy, Do Everything in the Dark, Depraved Indifference, Rent Boy, Resentment, and the essay collection Let It Bleed. His criticism has appeared in the Village Voice, the Los Angeles Times Book Review, New York, and the London Review of Books. He lives in New York and Los Angeles.
目录信息
--The Financial Times, March 13, 2010"Gary Indiana, a novelist, playwright, film historian and art critic, manages to get to the heart of his enigmatic subject with economy and style... Indiana captures Warhol's strange personality in a few deft brushstrokes... this entertaining, though-provoking book is a good place to start." -- The Irish Times, 21st April 2010"(Indiana's) book feels most exciting when he expounds on Warhol's dark side and how his importance was not necessarily a good thing."
--The Daily Telegraph, 21st April 2010
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