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Andy Warhol
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47THREEThe Brillo BoxBecause of the success of his first show at the Stable Gallery, Andy attained a degree of celebrity unshared by the other artists in the Pop movement: it in fact outlasted the movement itself, which was as much a cultural craze as an art movement, based on brashness and novelty. His productive career took a direction very different from that of any of his peers. It was not the typical career of the Artist in his Studio, producing a body of work to be shown at regular intervals at a gallery, harvesting critical reviews and sales to important collectors. More than any artist of com-parable importance, Andy intuited the great changes that made the 1960s the “Sixties,” and helped shape the era he lived through, so that his art both became part of his times and transcended them. He invented, one might say, an entirely new kind of life for an artist to lead, involving music, style, sex, language, film,
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47THREEThe Brillo BoxBecause of the success of his first show at the Stable Gallery, Andy attained a degree of celebrity unshared by the other artists in the Pop movement: it in fact outlasted the movement itself, which was as much a cultural craze as an art movement, based on brashness and novelty. His productive career took a direction very different from that of any of his peers. It was not the typical career of the Artist in his Studio, producing a body of work to be shown at regular intervals at a gallery, harvesting critical reviews and sales to important collectors. More than any artist of com-parable importance, Andy intuited the great changes that made the 1960s the “Sixties,” and helped shape the era he lived through, so that his art both became part of his times and transcended them. He invented, one might say, an entirely new kind of life for an artist to lead, involving music, style, sex, language, film,
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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Preface ix
  4. Acknowledgments xvii
  5. A Note on Notes xix
  6. ONE. The Window at Bonwit’s 1
  7. TWO. Pop, Politics, and the Gap Between Art and Life 24
  8. THREE. The Brillo Box 47
  9. FOUR. Moving Images 72
  10. FIVE. The First Death 91
  11. SIX. Andy Warhol Enterprises 120
  12. SEVEN. Religion and Common Experience 135
  13. Bibliography 149
  14. Index 151
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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Preface ix
  4. Acknowledgments xvii
  5. A Note on Notes xix
  6. ONE. The Window at Bonwit’s 1
  7. TWO. Pop, Politics, and the Gap Between Art and Life 24
  8. THREE. The Brillo Box 47
  9. FOUR. Moving Images 72
  10. FIVE. The First Death 91
  11. SIX. Andy Warhol Enterprises 120
  12. SEVEN. Religion and Common Experience 135
  13. Bibliography 149
  14. Index 151
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