Andy Warhol: Pioneer of Pop Art (People to Know)

Ford, Carin T.

ISBN 10: 0766015319 ISBN 13: 9780766015319

Publisher: Enslow Pub Inc, 2001

Synopsis

Recounts the life and work of painter and filmmaker Andy Warhol, and describes how his art and his ideas influenced society and culture in the 1960s.

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From School Library Journal

Gr 6-9-Should Warhol's work be taken seriously? Ford notes that faculty members at Carnegie Tech couldn't make up their mind about it, wondering if the artist did indeed "show talent and unique creativity. Or were his projects the careless efforts of a young man who was completely unable to draw?" This volume highlights these questions and leaves readers with the same feeling of uncertainty. However, the author does admit that Warhol had a huge influence on the world of art. The book begins with a discussion of his Campbell's soup-can paintings and then backtracks to trace his life from his childhood through his checkered college career to his death in 1987. Readers will be drawn into the narrative more through the accounts of the man's idiosyncrasies than through its compelling prose. The black-and-white photographs are disappointing for the most part; a number are of the buildings in which he worked or exhibited. Still, this is a well-documented title that will be useful where there is an interest in the subject or where the biography section needs to be augmented.

Tim Wadham, Maricopa County Library District, Phoenix, AZ

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Enslow Pub Inc
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0766015319
• ISBN 13: 9780766015319
• Binding: Library Binding
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 112
• Illustrator: Warhol Andy