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Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol

Motion Pictures

by Klaus BiesenbachMary Lea Bandy and Laurence Kardish
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/01/2005

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Prolific, mercurial, thought-provoking, charming, engaging, dynamic, confusing--just like the artist himself, Andy Warhol's films explore the gamut of human emotion. From the time he obtained his first film camera in 1963, up until his death in 1987, Warhol explored and created moving images ranging from epic films, to personal portraits, to programs for cable television, to music videos. In fact, in a mere five years (1963-1968) he produced nearly 650 films including hundreds of silent screen tests--portrait films--and dozens of full-length movies, in styles ranging from minimalist avant-garde to commercial "sexploitation." His films and videos capture the rich and raw texture of the fertile cultural milieu in which he lived and worked, and are crucial to the understanding of Warhol's work in other media. Andy Warhol: Motion Pictures focuses on the artist's screen tests and non-narrative films from 1963-73. Within it we see sequences of his "most beautiful women"--screen tests featuring "Baby" Jane Holzer, Ivy Nicholson, Edie Sedgwick--and other works that showcase a parade of friends, actors, and models--Dennis Hopper, Gerard Malanga and Walter Burn to name just a few. This collection of tests is followed by the artist's non-narrative films including Eat, Sleep, Kiss and Blow Job. All of the artist's film works are enhanced by texts from Mary Lea Bandy, Klaus Biesenbach and others. The worlds of art, photography, film, criticism, lifestyle and fashion unite in Andy Warhol: Motion Pictures, as 200 fascinating, full-bleed, remarkably clear, black and white stills provide access into territories both familiar and unexplored.
ISBN:
9783980426541
9783980426541
Category:
Individual artists
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
01-01-2005
Language:
English
Publisher:
Kunsterverlag Weingarten GmbH
Country of origin:
Germany
Pages:
266
Dimensions (mm):
310x240x29mm
Weight:
2.11kg
Klaus Biesenbach

Klaus Biesenbach is the Director of MoMA PS1 and Chief Curator at Large at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

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