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Andy Warhol, Poetry, and Gossip in the 1960s

by Reva Wolf

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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 Drawing on a wealth of unpublished material, including interviews, personal and public archives, tape recordings, documentary photographs, and works of art, Wolf offers dramatic evidence that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.

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Pop icon Andy Warhol claimed a machine mentality, and that no one need look further than the surface to evaluate him or his art. Reva Wolf shows that Warhol was actually deeply emotionally engaged with the people around him, which his art reflected. Drawing on a wealth of unpublished material, Wolf offers dramatic evidence that Warhol's extended interactions with writers and others did affect his work. 4 color plates. 80 halftones. 224 pp.

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

Product Details

ISBN:
9780226904931
Author:
Wolf, Reva
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
Location:
Chicago :
Subject:
Individual Artist
Subject:
Artists, Architects, Photographers
Subject:
History
Subject:
Popular Culture
Subject:
Warhol, Andy
Subject:
Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Subject:
Individual Artists - General
Subject:
Popular culture -- United States -- History.
Subject:
Warhol, Andy - Criticism and interpretation
Edition Description:
Paper Text
Publication Date:
November 1997
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
Professional and scholarly
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
226
Dimensions:
9.33x6.50x.57 in. .96 lbs.

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